This section is to cover my interest in the period from the advent of steam power until true battleships appeared, roughly 1840-1880, plus maybe a decade of odd corner cases on either end.

I have a lot of model ships of this era, and I find it endlessly fascinating, but oddly I only seem to play other people's games with their ships. Nonetheless, I have plenty of plans and plenty of models, so I made this section to collect my thoughts and (hopefully) advance my efforts.