#boarding axe

[ola-na-tungee]

Blue at the Mizzen While cutting out Peruvian fifty-gun frigate Esmeralda, Jack gets shot in the shoulder and stabbed through the thigh. How fortunate that Awkward Davies and Horatio Hanson are quickly on hand. And how fortunate for me that I have people in my HEMA club who are happy to model for me :)

[ltwilliammowett]

An early 19th-century American boarding axe

[cutlassandcompass]

Ships wheels and boarding axes at Museu de Marinha (Maritime Museum) in Lisbon

Motto on the ships wheels:

A Patria Honrai que a Pátria vos contempla

(English: "Honor the Fatherland for the Fatherland beholds you")

[victoriansword]

Napoleonic Naval Close Combat with Cutlass, Pistol & Bayonet - Lieut William Pringle Green

A fantastic manual on the use of close combat weapons during Napoleonic naval warfare is now available. The treatise of Lieut William Pringle Green: http://swordfight.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Instructions-for-training-a-ships-crew-in-the-use-of-arms-in-attack-and-defence-by-Lieutenant-William-Pringle-Green-1812.pdf

[ltwilliammowett]

Royal Navy Boarding Axe, 1793-1815

Overall length : 40cm (15.7in)

[ltwilliammowett]

A Danish naval boarding axe c. 1800 on a c 71 cm long shaft

[ltwilliammowett]

US naval boarding axe, made during the War of 1812

The “NYW” denotes manufacture at the Navy Yard Washington. “JT” stands for the inspector, Captain Joseph Tarbell (1780-1815), who inspected naval weapons at the Navy Yard during the War of 1812. 

[ltwilliammowett]

A danish boarding axe, c. 1807 - the shaft is 70cm long