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>>>I am interested in some basic information on Swedish >>>galleys, half-galleys and rowing frigates. I am aware >>>that Sweden stopped building galleys after 1748 in >>>favor of small gunboats (per Jan Glete who should >have >>>known :-)). I am also aware that Russia captured at >>>least six 20-banked galleys during the 1788-90 war. >>>Beyond that, I have very little information. >>> >>>Thanks in advance, >>> >>I'm not sure exactly what types you are asking about. >>R.C. Anderson had a table in the back of <i>Naval Wars >>in the Baltic</i> (p. 376) about the following types >>of rowed vessels, some of which had broadside >>armaments (the first four were, I think, named for >>counties in Finland): >>• Hemmema >>• Turuma >>• Udema >>• Pojama >>• Galley >>• Gunsloop >>• Gunyawl >>I think he also wrote an article about these in <i>The >>Mariner's Mirror,</i> which I might be able to dig up. >> There is also a narrative description of most of >>these types, with some outline drawings, in Otto von >>Pivka's pastiche, <i>Navies of the Napoleonic Era.</i> > >A Hemmemmaa is a Swedish rowing frigate, larger and >more heavily armed than a galley and somewhat >resembling the galleases of the previous century. >Swedish and Russian rowing frigates carried 8 pdr to >24 pdr broadsides and were similar in many respects to >traditional frigates save only in their use of oars to >enable them to maneuver in Baltic calms. I ><i>thought</i> that udemas were large galleys, but I >may be wrong. I hate to rely upon Otto von Pivka for >anything, but I will see what he has to say. > >What I am particularly interested in is <u>how >many</u> of the various types were produced before the >Russo-Swedish war. > >Thanks, John Tredrea

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