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Greetings everyone; I am researching the Royal Caroline of 1749, and as part of this I have viewed the original of the painting which is used as a frontispiece in Sergio Bellabarba's AOS book about her. As his illustration is in black and white what I will be describing is not obvious, but it is possible to view colour images of this painting for anyone really interested. Anyway, in this painting, although parts of some of the decks are visible, no deck planking is shown. instead, the deck appears to be covered with a uniform grey-coloured something. My first, and so far only, realistic guess is that it is painted canvas. This grey covering is visible on the quarterdeck, where the Royal passengers would mostly appear, so it may be related to them, but it also appears on the forecastle, where they certainly would not normally go. The upper deck in the waist cannot be seen, but it would seem a fair assumption that it was similarly treated. Could it be purely decorative, or could it be as a means of aiding important feet to avoid slipping and sliding as the vessel heeled and pitched. Before I go and pass many hours wading through her log-books in an effort to see if anything about this is mentioned, I wondered if any other members here might know anything about it. All the best, Mark P
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