Talk:Gil Blas

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Name of Ship[edit]

Name of a ship, used by emigrants from Britain to New Zealand, around 1855.

THE COMMERCIAL CODE OF SIGNALS FOR THE USE OF ALL NATIONS, WITH THE BRITISH ..., Published by WILLIAM MITCHELL, 1859 ^[1]

has 2 sailing ships of this name in the list of British Registered Vessels.

Index to Entries, on Page 280

Page	Off. No.	Signal Letters	Name of Vessel and Port of Registry	Tons.	Horse Power	Type
232	40312	S.T.W.J	Gil Blas of Capetown	101 Tons	-	Schooner
174	31701	Q.S.C.J	Gil Blas of Geelong	175 Tons	-	Brig

109.150.47.176 (talk) 02:52, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tons. is "Tons register" (unladen weight). "Tons burthen" (fully loaded), may be twice as much.

Both of these ships were used Australia <-> New Zealand, 1855

The schooner is in Lloyd's Register for 1845.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=C3yRpN0d1DgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Gil&f=false — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.37.105 (talk) 16:23, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

total wreck of the Schooner Gil Blas, Captain Small, on the South end of the Island of Mana

Ref Wellington Independent, Issue 1208, 11 July 1857, Page 2

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WI18570711.2.9&srpos=1&e=-------10-WI-1----0Gil+Blas--

Google Maps -41.1023,174.7714

Gil Blas. Brig, 172 tons. Built Bremen, Germany, 1848. Used Bremen <-> New York, 1848-52,

Ashore, wrecked, on the Baffle Creek bar, Qld, Australia, 20 July 1865. [LQ]

Ref http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/qld-wrecks.html

Google Maps -24.5000,152.0658

86.171.101.142 (talk) 13:46, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-ukNAAAAQAAJ

last masterpiece?[edit]

Whoever wrote that sentence about how Gil Blas 'is considered the last masterpiece of the picaresque genre' pulled the idea out of his hat, considering the fact that neither Smollett nor Fielding had yet written anything. I'm removing it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.14.250.194 (talk) 21:22, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

pronunciation of title[edit]

Does the reader of this article need to know how to pronounce the French title? --134.153.2.40 (talk) 19:16, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-ukNAAAAQAAJ

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