User:Shem1805

Interests
Naval history, especially the smaller ships of the nineteenth-century Royal Navy.

Things to do

 * Alecto-class sloop
 * Driver-class sloop
 * Review HMS Hyacinth (1829), HMS Hazard (1837), HMS Elk (1847), HMS Philomel (1842), HMS Acheron (1838), HMS Hydra (1838), HMS Hecate (1839), HMS Salamander (1832), HMS Ardent (1841), HMS Philomel (1842) & HMS Trident (1845)
 * Work on John Davis (English explorer) using DNB
 * New Pages
 * Vampire Fleet - Vampire Fleet workbox
 * Expand HMS Zebra (1860) - (Zebra workbox)
 * List of torpedo boat classes of the Royal Navy
 * HMS Algerine (1857)
 * RN Arctic expeditions (RN Arctic Expeds workbox)
 * Referencing of Denys Rayner
 * Expand HMS Reindeer (1866)

Empty workboxes

 * Workbox10
 * Workbox6
 * user:Shem1805/Workbox2

Resources

 * Proofs page
 * Benea's list of shiplist pages
 * Image summary text
 * WPShips and WPMilHist talk page code
 * Ship infobox code
 * battleships-cruisers.co.uk
 * ageofnelson.org
 * Index of 19th Century Naval Vessels
 * WikiProject Ships Guidelines
 * NavyPhotos
 * WP:REFNEST
 * Specialist style fallacy
 * Tool for automatically producing cite book wiki mark up from Google Books url
 * DAB solver

Languages
Since it's been a long time since I used any of my foreign languages to do much more than order a couple of beers, I understand and read much better than I talk or write. With a dictionary and plenty of time I can understand pretty much anything in any Romance or Slavic language, but I'm not about to start writing Czech articles just yet.

Print sources
To easy hand I have, inter alia: