I have recently decided to go completely insane and build and rig a couple of fleets for the Napoleonic period...
Anyway, these will be for the fairly balanced (in terms of the number of ships involved) battles around Gibraltar and Algeciras in 1801.
The plan is to do the full orbat and the initial purchases are:
Rear-Admiral of the
Blue Saumarez's squadron
HMS Caesar, Third
rate, 80 Royal Navy Rear-Admiral
Sir James Saumarez
Captain
Jahleel Brenton
HMS Superb, Third
rate, 74 Royal Navy Captain
Richard Goodwin Keats
HMS Spencer, Third rate, 74 Royal
Navy Captain Henry Darby
HMS Pompee, Third
rate, 74 Royal Navy Captain
Charles Stirling
HMS Hannibal, Third
rate, 74 Royal Navy Captain
Solomon Ferris
HMS Venerable, Third
rate, 74 Royal Navy Captain
Samuel Hood
HMS Audacious, Third
rate, 74 Royal Navy Captain
Shuldham Peard
HMS Thames, Frigate, 32 Royal Navy Captain Aiskew Hollis
Carlotta, Frigate, 38 Portuguese Navy Captain Crawfurd Duncan
HMS Calpe, Brig, 14 Royal Navy Commander George Dundas
Louisa, Brig, 14 Hired Lieutenant William Truscott
Vice-Admiral Moreno's
squadron
Real Carlos, First
rate, 112 Spain Captain
Don J. Esquerra
San Hermenegildo, First
rate, 112 Spain Captain
Don J. Emparran
San Fernando, Second rate, 96 Spain Captain Don J. Malina
Argonauta, Third rate, 80 Spain Captain Don J. Herrera
San Agustín, Third rate, 74 Spain Captain Don R. Jopete
Formidable, Third rate, 80 France Captain Amable-Gilles Troude
Desaix, Third rate, 74 France Captain Christy de la Pallière
Indomptable, Third rate, 80 France Captain Claude Touffet
Saint Antoine, Third rate, 74 France Commodore Julien Le Ray
Santa Sabina, Frigate, 34 Spain Vice-Admiral
Don Juan Joaquin de Moreno
Contre-amiral
Charles Linois
Muiron, Frigate, 40 France Captain Jules-François Martinencq
Libre, Frigate, 40 France Captain Proteau
Vautour, Lugger, 14 France Lieutenant Kémel
Perla, Frigate, 34 Spain Unknown
