Sam Ladley
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Sam Ladley got a reaction from Canute in American sailing warships with no plans or records
The photo you mention does show the deckhouse. It was 16x41 and used as a classroom. I now live in this deckhouse.
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Sam Ladley got a reaction from Canute in American sailing warships with no plans or records
Library of congress has a photo, "officers on deck of USS Sabine" that shows that fly bridge. Kinda steampunk.
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Sam Ladley got a reaction from Canute in American sailing warships with no plans or records
I'm in NY lecturing this week, but when imhome I'll put together a packet of stuff on the house. It is fully intact- including some civil war graffiti! I am very interested in the Sabine because of the rotating parrot guns. It seems to me she was an old school classic sailing ship that was updated with modern munitions and represents a transition in naval warfare. 40 of her crew were sent to the monitor. I have a couple great photos showing the flybridge- had to be one of thefirst- and spar deck. I know the inside face of the quarterdechhouse , but not the stern treatment or the exact line on the spardeck where the fore and aft house/gun platforms begin. In one photo I have there is a field artillery caisson on deck, maybe for a 12 pounder? But is that for marines, or used on board? I'm guessing its for the marines, but cool for a model! How do I get 96 scale carriage wheels?
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Sam Ladley got a reaction from Canute in American sailing warships with no plans or records
I live next to the Snow shipyard in Rockland,Maine. In 1883 the Sabine was towed here and scrapped for parts. Her deckhouses were lifted off the ship and used around town. I've been told our house is probably the only intact civil war navy deckhouse in existence. Original windows that slide into the walls, canvas barriers in wall spaces. Yes very cool. If you want exact demensions and wood I can provide it. It appears to me the Santee and the Sabine were both fitted with deckhouses,which later made them excellent blockade ships and later school ships. Our deckhouse had double door entry's with a black painted vestibule - I'm guessing for stealth at night.
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Sam Ladley got a reaction from mtaylor in American sailing warships with no plans or records
The photo you mention does show the deckhouse. It was 16x41 and used as a classroom. I now live in this deckhouse.
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Sam Ladley got a reaction from CharlieZardoz in American sailing warships with no plans or records
The photo you mention does show the deckhouse. It was 16x41 and used as a classroom. I now live in this deckhouse.
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Sam Ladley got a reaction from mtaylor in American sailing warships with no plans or records
I'm in NY lecturing this week, but when imhome I'll put together a packet of stuff on the house. It is fully intact- including some civil war graffiti! I am very interested in the Sabine because of the rotating parrot guns. It seems to me she was an old school classic sailing ship that was updated with modern munitions and represents a transition in naval warfare. 40 of her crew were sent to the monitor. I have a couple great photos showing the flybridge- had to be one of thefirst- and spar deck. I know the inside face of the quarterdechhouse , but not the stern treatment or the exact line on the spardeck where the fore and aft house/gun platforms begin. In one photo I have there is a field artillery caisson on deck, maybe for a 12 pounder? But is that for marines, or used on board? I'm guessing its for the marines, but cool for a model! How do I get 96 scale carriage wheels?
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Sam Ladley got a reaction from mtaylor in American sailing warships with no plans or records
Library of congress has a photo, "officers on deck of USS Sabine" that shows that fly bridge. Kinda steampunk.
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Sam Ladley reacted to uss frolick in American sailing warships with no plans or records
Way too cool. A mislabeled picture, dated 1879, of possibly your very deck house, belonging to either the Santee or the Sabine, is reproduced in that above-mentioned illustrated history of the US Naval Academy, who name I sadly don't have. I had just photocopied the two pictures 20 years ago, because they looked interesting. The structure, of that size you described, sits just before the mainmast, apparently atop where one would find the gratings. She mounts 24 broadside guns, possibly light 32-pounders on skid carriages, starting from the wheel to the forecastle, with a barrel of a big pivot Dahlgren gun aft of the mizen mast. There are what looks like two sliding wooden doors in the center of the aft-facing deckhouse bulkhead. The photographer is standing to port of the pivot gun, looking forward.
I don't have a functioning scanner at hand, but I can snail-mail them to you.
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Sam Ladley got a reaction from mtaylor in American sailing warships with no plans or records
I live next to the Snow shipyard in Rockland,Maine. In 1883 the Sabine was towed here and scrapped for parts. Her deckhouses were lifted off the ship and used around town. I've been told our house is probably the only intact civil war navy deckhouse in existence. Original windows that slide into the walls, canvas barriers in wall spaces. Yes very cool. If you want exact demensions and wood I can provide it. It appears to me the Santee and the Sabine were both fitted with deckhouses,which later made them excellent blockade ships and later school ships. Our deckhouse had double door entry's with a black painted vestibule - I'm guessing for stealth at night.
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