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Thank you Allan

Hello,

the carpenters where very busy today and build the walls for the kitchen. So, when I made the pictures, they where at there way home.

Thank you Keith,

when I remember right, was wood and coal stored in the fish room. It's in front of last room in the hold.

Hello and many thanks for the nice comments and likes,

and some last masonry work around the galley. 

Hello,

I was't really active at the shipyard the last days, because of the first really spring days with 20°C and sunshine. Now we are back in the reality with 7°C and rain! But slowly the galley get ready. Today the shipwright inspected her and was satisfied.

So I think I could glue her fast and start with the kitchen in front of her. 

Keith, don't worry, I bought the bricks. That are real clay bricks, but not burned.

Jaager, no I would't make it easy

Tobias and all others, thank you

Hello,

after I have my other yard more or les ready for spring, I'm back at the ship yard. 

The carpenters have build the basic scaffolding for the galley and I'm do now the masonry work. I think, it's easier doing it 1:1 

Thank you shipman

Jason,

could you please tell me where they stored cannons in the hold and where I could find that written down. Not just I know that, or I have read it somewhere.

In most stores in the hold where barrels stored. There was not somewhere an empty space to lay down some cannons. And they need heavy gear to get them out there. Not just one man at each end and away with them. The wight of the cannons you see above in my last post. Did you think that could be done within 15-30 minutes. That was a larger task. 

And yes, I know that they lashed cannons to the side. I build that already for the Dragon.

For the Tiger it would also work, with the help of some extra rings. To the right you see the door to the roundhouse. So, you wouldn't have many friends when you blockade it. 

And permanent bulwarks are permanent. See also the drawing for the 1745 establishment in my post #875

Hello,

Shipman, that where at least guard ships.

Usually a ship of the line fitted in peacetime with part of her armament and rig and a nucleus crew, capable of acting as a floating battery for the defence of a port she was at, and also capable of being rapidly fitted out in an emergency before the ships in „Ordinary“ (reserve) became available. David Lyon

And I don't think, that they had the rest of there cannons in the hold.

I read the passage for ship guns in Muller's Treatise of Artillery fron 1768 (page 53-60) and it showed to me, that there where no shorter guns up to this time. There should come shorter guns with the next establishment. 😐 

That meant to me I could use the guns I have build and because I show them run out, all others should not bother me.

Here the passages that say that at least

Hello and many thanks for your thoughts,

yes I know that when ships where not in use, they stored the cannons at shore. Not in the hold. And yes, when in action the cabins where dismantled and brought into the hold or in the boots, who where brought outside. But not the galley and the bulwark. At this time the bulwarks where permanent. It was a „bulwark“ in times ships where entered. I remember a picture, I think in the Kriegstein collection, with a cannon port in the doors.

And yes, they where practical men, shorter cannons is the simplest solution. But did they have them, and how long where they? I know, it would be a lot of extra work 🙁 

Thank you Druxey,

but even then it is tight there. There are two cannons in front of the cabins and some ships have between them at the port side a second cabin. I chose the 9 ft cannons, because Falconer listed them for iron guns used in the sea service, according to the mensurations in 1753. And he has for every caliber only one length! 

Hello and many thanks for the likes,

but I have a serious problem. The 12 pdr 9 ft cannons are too long! If they are secured inside, nobody could pass without being an artist. And this is a very often used way to the head.

The Armstrong design has 3 lengths for 12 pdr's, 7,5, 8,5 and 9 feet. In the next picture I used a 7,5 ft cannon

and here the 8,5 ft cannon. From the aspect of space I would prefer the 7,5 ft cannon

Also for the cabins, the 9 ft cannon would be an obstacle. 

So my question: did anywhere know if they had these cannons at that time? At least the 7.5 ft 12 pdr? Many thanks in advance.

Hello Auger,

yes there are holes drilled to find the exact position again.

Hello,

the carpenters fished mostly the cabins and the painter painted them. They will get now some free days till Eastern, but the shipwright has to think about the galley. Some bricks are ordered, but there are some more questions to solve. 

If you want to find the dust, make a picture 😄 

Thank you and you are right Greg. 

Hallo and many thanks,

today the carpenters where fit Keith and started with the cabins. 😉

Hello and thank you Keith,

the bulwark is ready and fast    The workers got a free afternoon, I think they are now in on of the pubs around here.

And that is what you will see later from it. The next things to do are the cabins.

Hello,

we where all busy over the weekend and the shipwright is pleased. Some small spots he found, where the painter must rework his painting. But at least most of the parts are ready. Even the windows for the cabins. Tomorrow the blacksmith should come to installed the door handles. 

Thank you Albert

Hello and many thanks for your nice comments and likes,

the carpenters build today the columns and installed them to the middle part of the bulwark

later the painter painted them. I hope that when the paint is dry, it looked a little better, sharper. There are 4 columns left for tomorrow 🤭

Hello,

also without an extra grog, now it works better. Daylight was the solution. 

Hello Keith,

that could be a solution. 🤪

I had a look at my pictures from the Dragon, and they did't look better there. At the model they look great. So I hope paint and time would do it. I don't know if I build them there from Batoia, or also from Castello, it's softer. 

Hello,

today was't my day. I made the first panelings, but I could do it better and I did it better.

Hello Keith,

no it's not so dramatic. Some small things I changed already and tomorrow I must cut new wood.