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

The best source I've seen for actual ship handling is "Seamanship in the Age of Sail" by John Harland. It has commands for ship handling in numerous periods in the Age of Sail.