Malta's galley

[blaster]

Hi Francesco,

A very nice and entertaining project. I wish you success with it. I had the opportunity to visit the Arsenale at Venice. These are a few tourist pics for your reference.

Rgds Victor

 

[franceso sbarile]

Hi Francesco,

A very nice and entertaining project. I wish you success with it. I had the opportunity to visit the Arsenale at Venice. These are a few tourist pics for your reference.

Rgds Victor

Thanks Victor, the first one is a model of "Bucintoro" , a cerimonial galley of Venice's Doge used for the yearly "Sposalizio del mare" (wedding (of Venice) with the sea) that symbolized the maritime domain of Venice. The second one looks to be a xebec more than a galley but it is very intersting also since most of arrangements are very similar. The third one is the so called "Scaleo Reale" built around the middle of XIXth century for the king of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II and used in the celebrations for the annexation of the Veneto to Italy . I was no able to identify the other subject of the third picture... The arsenal museum is very intersting and whorty of a visit if you are in Venice, I was there once.
A similar boat is now at Turin at Venaria Reale museum. This is the picture

Cheers
Francesco

 

[Oda]

Very knowledgeable on such a tremendously interesting subject!!!

Oda.

 

[franceso sbarile]

Very knowledgeable on such a tremendously interesting subject!!!

Oda.

I know that I do not know
Francesco

 

[Huw63]

Great stuff.

Cheers

Huw

 

[frog]

Looking forward to seeing this completed excellent

 

[franceso sbarile]

Hi Guys , first of all thank so much to everybody. Just some pictures about how the figure proceed and a couple of words about Malta's flags.

About the flag I used as a reference this picture of the grand master's galley ad the middle of XVIII century

as you can see there are so many tipes of flags, standards, guidons and so on...
basically we can divide the flags into 3 main category, the Order's flag white cross on red field, the grand master's flag with the order's flag quartered with the grand master's own herardry and several flags with religious figures.
Very intersting is the st. John standard at the far stern of the ship.
Still to decide what kind of flag I 'll try to do.
For people who also enjoy naval history I post the image of several stamps from Malta showing how the galleys fleet comunicated each other. Unlucky they are commented in italian but if somebody appreciate I can make an attempt to traslate in english.
Cheers
Francesco

 

[billyturnip]

I think to fix the parapet ( or whatever is the specific name) to a proper height.

Francesco

In English it is called a bulwark.