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>Hi. > >Mike wrote: > >snip > >>Thanks Carl. > >>I think that I have opened a can of worms that I can't >>pursue at present! I thought that the Russian >>shebecks, all 8 of which were built in 1788 (the 1st) >>and 1789 (the next 7)along with 10 half-shebecks <u> >>all in response to the Swedish designs</u>! Turunmmaas >>and hememmaas captured by the Russians occasionally >>had two bow 24pdrs, but the broadside guns were >>12pdrs–not 36 pdrs.Possibly Chapman designed the >>hememmaas for 36pdrs and they were given 12pdrs >>instead? > >>Mike > >At least some (one) of the hemeenmaa’s carried 36 >pounders. On April 28, 1813 the hemeenmaa frigate >“Birger Jarl” sank after springing a leak. The wreck >was discovered and investigated by the Danes beginning >in 1960. They found 22 36 pounder cannon and 10 24 >pounder carronades at the wreck site. > >The Swedish archives indicate that the ship was built >in 1809, along with her sister “Erik Segersäll.” > >The information is from the following website: > >www.abc.se/~m10354/uwa/birg_jarl.htm > >carl

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