Siggi52
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Hello, yesterday I thought more about that problem with the pantry or not. The draughts for the 1745 establishment show the cabins for the captain at the upper gun deck but not a pantry there around the mizzen mast. That space there is too small to be a pantry, but may be not. So I thought that that is may be the reason to build the pantry in front of the galley. But the Royal Oak has the captains cabin at the quarter deck and also a pantry around the mizzen mast. And there are also no doors drawn. So that is not the reason. Here is the plan of the upper gun deck of the Royal Oak and may be also that of the Essex. But Druxey, it looked a little different of that what you described in your post #877. That are the only floor plans for the Royal Oak 1741 and may be Essex 1741 the NMM has.
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Yes Druxey, that is the Essex. When I shut the site from the NMM, I saw that the Royal Oak was build to the same draught. So, you meant that decks plan and to that plan I said already something in the next post #876. You must not take these plans as the last instance. If there is a door or not. There are often mistakes or they forget something do draw. At the plan for the Tiger they draw the cross beam from the bitts partly through the mast! I think I should't build it so.
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Hello and many thanks Druxey and Scrubby, Druxey, I don't know from where you got the floor plan of the Essex, the NMM did't have any. But at least shows the sideview the pantry in front of the galley with a door. If there are no doors drawn, must not say that there aren't any. At the plan of the Royal Oak are also no doors drawn, but the model has them. Scrubby, better one post more, then not. I had a look into my book about the Victory and yes she has a pantry aft of the galley to the open fire side. The pantry is in the same way build like the one of the Leopard, but has also doors. These pantries make sense, because for what is a 2,5 m long brick place good? If there are sparks flying they stay within the pantry and are easy to detect. Not so, when they fly under a cannon or else. At least is the problem not solved, but I tend to build a pantry. May be some more things come up
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Good morning, all the experts are in vacation? 😉 Scrubby, from where got you the information about the room in front of the galley? Yesterday I thought about the battens, as I called them, in front of the galley. Just for paving the place there to prevent a fire, I think the place is a little too large(?) Or is it really a room? The model of the Royal Oak 1741 has there a room. It's hard to see, but it's there. from an other view Thats the drawing from the Royal Oak, there are no doors drawn. That would be the galley with a room in front, according to the drawing for the 1745 establishment, as I think it could be look like.
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Hello Scrubby, many thanks. May be, in later years they had only a part bulwark in front of the galley. I'm missing doors to the front part, where the grill is and also a table. Like here in the Essex from 1741 Is the computer drawing the Bristol? Here is the drawing from the 1745 establishment. That I think are battens who hold the bricks in place. They did't draw doors here At the drawing for the Tiger they even did't draw this.
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Hello, the carpenters had build the bitts for the fore mast and made also the partners for that mast and the bowsprit new. I'm puzzling with the galley. I know it is a galley made from brick, covered with wood. At older models you see also that there is a room in front of the galley like this one. Did anyone know how long this was made in this way? The latest model where I saw that is the Ipswich from 1730. But also Steve Anderson build it in his Victory. Many thanks in advance
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Hello, the carpenters have the deck beams ready and fitted them in. The next thing they have to build are some hanging knees. But not all, you would't see them later.
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Hello Greg, that white should be the final color. At pictures it looked a little noisy, because the of lack of light. To all others, many thanks for your likes and comments. At the moment I'm bending rings and eyelets for the cannons at the upper gun deck. So the next update may take some time to come.
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Hello, so, it is done! The head is ready. 😃 The painter has to fix some things, because the man from the admiralty would come and inspect the work. He was very pleased and spend a beer for the crew 😮 Yes one beer 😕 For the next days the crew had some days free and after that, they have to cut the deck beams for the fore castle.
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Hello and many, many thanks for your comments and likes Mark, just try and try again. It's not the first lion I have carved that sits there. As an architect I think you could think in three dimensions. The rest is training. Or as some say, the lion sits already in the wood, you must only cut away all the parts who did't belong to the lion. 😉 Greg, that is the example after which I worked the gammon rack or rack block. Its from the Invincible 1747. All the parts they have recovered from the wreck, are now in Chatham and many on display.
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Hello and many thanks for your nice comments and likes. Today only a little update, the boomkin cleats are installed.
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Hello, the bowsprit is now fast and the last „seats of ease“ are installed. The next things are the boomkin cleats. But that may take a little time. Should I tar the gammoning? I'm not sure
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Hello and thank you for all the nice comments and likes, today only the painter was active and because the paint must dry, the carpenters had nothing to do 😃 I'm looking at the moment how to build the rest of the grating. Especially the seats of ease and the boomkins. The drawing for the 1745 establishment shows the boomkins I think in a wrong way. The smaller part should be at the outside of the ship and the heel not against the stem, but against the knight-head. That is what Falconer and also Goodwin write. May be it was earlier in this way? Here is a picture of the model SLR0472, build 1745. I would build it this way. The grey boomkin above. I would think, that this is a strait boomkin bend by the rope to the bow. Goodwin writes at page 224, that the heel was butted against the knight-head. What did that mean? Later it was bolted, but what is later? After 1730 he wrote, the boomkins look like the one at the picture below.
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Hello, it is done, the last rail at the head is ready and fast! At least I have to reinstall the two port lids and then the gratings are the next goal.
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Hello, the painter is a little out of training! But at least we got it. That's the second try now. The rail ist not fast, first the paint must dry.
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Hello and thank you for your nice comments and likes, today the carpenters finished the rails, so next the painter should do his best.
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Hello, Mark and Håkan, so let inspire you. I will see then if it has worked. Here the first rail is mostly in shape and the second one is on the way to it.
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Hello and thank you all for your comments and likes, I'm overwhelmed today only a little update, even when it took nearly the same time, as to build the knees. This piece is only to fill the gab to the wales.
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📣 Hello, I'm back! The two knees, who support the cat head, are ready in raw. The final form come when all is assembled.
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Hello Johann, I found two compasses you are looking for in the NMM archives. The bad point is, they are from the 1930th! https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-7770 https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-7771
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