Help with jargon / commands for a nautical battle

There is so much, and I am not an expert at all, but if you find one of the AoS books - Patrick O'Brian, for example - you can crib lots of terms from that.

This has some stuff about ships in it

http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/contents.html

See Quarters, and Exercise, and lots of jargon!

2005: The Cheese Gate Guard
2006: The Heron's Bridge
2007: Fair Warning
2009: Valley of Thorns

Or here: http://www.archive.org/details/newpracticalnavi00moorrich

it had chapters on:

On Preparing for Exercise or Action,

Directions for restoring the Drowned,

Exercise of the Great Guns,

The Method of Attacking or Defending a Ship,

The Methods of exercising Ship's Companies for War...

Yay! Another AoS--In addition to the above publications, (Falconer's is a must read--I have a link somewhere where it can be downloaded--I'll try to find it and post. I've collected some links to my favorite RN sites on http://delicious.com/Aleyna_Wade/royal-navy -- I'll try to add to it.

Do check out Joyful Molly's page of links. I highly recommend the books "Dressed to Kill," (to die for, yummy) and "Nelson's Navy," by Lavery--and the original AoS written in 1803, "The Post Captain, or The Wooden Walls Well-Manned" a fun read. Also don't pass up the Naval Chronicles which describe the actions in detail.

That said, I even more highly urge to put off research until after NaNo for the main reason that if one is researching; one is not writing. I've been researching the topic for two years and still have lots of places in my story that I just have to leave fluid or put 'insert sailor-speak equivalent here,' or 'describe action of ...' Try writing the story in your own words and do the research after NaNo.

Good luck--this is a great topic to write on--so many stories--but the research, though fantastically intriguing, can be overwhelming.

Oh, many thanks! Looks like very usable links.

Well, I have most O'Brian/Forester books + the movies on my computer, but simply no time to re-watch now. I'd need them. (Especially for my dose of Pullings, Bush, Pellew and other hotties.)

AoS is all yummy. Men in uniform, beautiful ships, heroic battles... a paradise. (Why isn't there such thing as a Navy Metal band? Just imagine: the heroic themes would totally fit, and it could be named "Spithead & the Nore".)

Sieglinde's writing an AoS novel - root for her!

there are bands like that...

http://www.running-wild.net/pics/content/cov_ujr_big.jpg

That's pirate metal. Good too.

Sieglinde's writing an AoS novel - root for her!

--At Sea--

Most Honored Sieglinde,

Men in Uniform--yummy! What could be better? Men in uniform with manners, and honor and that duty stuff--woohoo!

I am rooting for you all the way from the Oregon territories.

By the by, I was going through some of the posts in http://candicehern.com/board/index.php

under general research topics, subcategories: "Wellies and Wentworth," and another under, "Naval and Military Matters." When you have a chance, you might give them a read--lots of information there. I don't know if you have to join up to access the specific posts there; but they're a great bunch of compatriot writers (and readers) in the forums there too.

Keep on writing.

Your servant, &c.,

Macao