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The book of Spanish frigates of Enrique garcia Torralba is a good book although this one in phase of update (not yet published). You can get it for now, although in the old edition.

Enrique Garcia Torralba is a very good friend of mine.

To have a Spanish vision of the Royal Spanish Armada, your book on the Navios of the Royal Navy is indispensable.
It has been awarded several prizes and is the benchmark to learn about the history and characteristics of the main ships.

If you only have a vision of the Spanish army by English, American or French historians and researchers, I think you lack the best. In all these years I have been able to prove that the knowledge of Spanish ships is very poor and full of topics, sometimes a caricature.

so I encourage you to get the book

in amazon they ask for the 353 euros

but if you order directly from a Spanish bookstore the price drops to 45 euros plus shipping costs

https://www.amazon.es/Navíos-Armada-1700-1860-Enrique-García-Torralba/dp/8493930342

http://www.nauticarobinson.com/libros/navios-de-la-real-armada-1700-1860/9788493930349/

Maneuvering the anchor cable to the main hatch and messenger to the main capstain, fixed to the cable with the nippers

Messenger ready to pull the cable.
nippers fitting (black thread)

The manger (caja de aguas) has a special provision that you will not be used to seeing if you only read Ancre books, or follow Lavery or Goodwin. is taken from some models of this time of the Naval Museum of Madrid, which I advise you to visit

The Tiller ( barra del timon) , tiller rope (guardines del timon), sweep ( descanso de la caña del timon) 

according to the Spanish system of the mid-18th century.

If you have seen the MONTAÑES sweep of my friend Amalio, (which can be seen in the MSW), you will notice that the system is different. in England there are also differences from 1773 when the Pollard´s system begins. 

In this model, the system is simpler, as corresponds to a Spanish ship from the mid-18th century. the last pulley is fastened in the stern of the entrance to the cabin of the midshipmen

if we continue forward we reach the bulkhead of the "santa barbara" that separates the ranch from the santabarbara from the rest of the ship.

the "santabarbara" is a camera for officers of the sea, who has the hatch to go down to the dustbin, the hatch of the powder lantern.

In the English ships, the powder room is in the bow and everything is different to what you will be used to.

the name of santabarbara comes to be a saint, patron of the artillery  

That bulkhead is folded upwards in case the commander gave the order: "ZAFARANCHO DE COMBATE"  Combat duty? 

zafa  means clear

rancho means camera

combate means fight

the hinges are made with gravure and are a couple of millimeters this bulkhead only has one door on the port side

In the stern the cabins of the chaplains that in the Spanish navy of that time in addition to carrying out the religious services are in charge of the care of the sick or wounded crew, doing the functions of nursing and helping the surgeon. the starboard side only has the structure of the staterooms, the port side has the stateroom cabin

The chain pumps are only similar to the English but they have differences in the cistern, 
and in the elm wood tubes. 
they would really be similar to some English models of the mid-18th century, 
and quite different from those described by current English authors, 
who always draw chain pumps at the end of the 18th century.

in the Spanish ships there are two chain pumps ( first deck)  and two lever pumps ( 2 deck)

in the main hatch the anchor of "misericordia"--"mercy?"

First Deck

and in the bow the  sail´s room 

There are a lot of elements not commented, but if you want to mention Could

continue with orlop

carpenter´s walk

 bread room

etc

 pump well and shot lockers

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stern detail

more details

I do not know if the translation is correct,

just in case I put the original Spanish name

a escotilla pañol del farol- light room hatch?

b escotilla pañol condestable --  master gunner room  hatch?

c escotilla viveres--- store room hatch?

d pozo de bombas pump well and shot lockers

e escotilla principal main hatch

f escotilla de proa--bow hatch?

Orlop

the external fixation of the bolting of the tackles of  "spanish way XVIII"

top bolt for muzzle tackle
two bolts on each side for breechings (two breechings are used in case of combat)
another bolt for gun tackle

(in the photo the cannon is stowed and only uses one breeching)

In addition to using a muzzle lashing tackle, in Spain, a muzzle tackle is used.
(the muzzle tackle is the train tackle moved)

drawing of the ship of his royal majesty The Africa that serves as model to this work.

This drawing can be found in a manuscript called "Marques de la Victoria album" that contains drawings of Spanish naval architecture from the first third of the 18th century until the middle of the century.

View of the exterior in different stages.

general view of the hold

well of the ship (caja de bombas)

more images of the aft part

You can suggest better translations of the Spanish words.

from stern to bow
Constable's Wardrobe ( pañol del condestable) master gunner room??
light room
filling room ( pañol de la polvora), separated from the hold by a double wall with insulating brick

You will see that although it might seem similar to an English ship, you will find quite a few differences inside the ship. and also in the length with respect to an English ship of the same number of guns.

In general, the internal structure of a Spanish ship is different from the English one. the dustbin locker is located in the stern, in the English ships it is in the prow.
I'll put pictures, you can ask me questions if you want

Here I put some drawings of my book that explain some pieces of the model. the pieces are taken from the regulation of 1752 oak woods, which has drawn all the silhouettes of the pieces.

the regulation of oak woods is a complete book, but in my book of the ship of 68 cannons I digitized and cleaned it, I put a picture of the set of pieces.

These regulations were always ignored by non-Spanish researchers. and they are a great source of knowledge

Once all the frames were built, a first sanding job was carried out.

According to one knows of the English system of construction of that time, according to the book of another spy, this time French (blaise ollivier 1737) between two "account" frames (I do not know the term in English). there are three filler frames in which the bow part of the frame is not attached to the stern part.

also the space between frames in these ships is minimal in the area attached to the keel

no frame has its bolted pieces, according to the Spanish writings of that time,

in my plans we chose to have only one filler frame.

the assembly started in the bow, which is classic of the Spanish system and also of the English, and different from the French system type "orange segments"

then they go hemi-frames inclined.
as the years passed, the number of crooked frames increased.

in the stern the corresponding parts are placed, in Spanish it is the "peto de popa" with the "gambotas"

You can see Jose_toledo proud of our work.