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Hello, everyone. I was looking at the drawing of Le fleuron recently and found a place I didn't understand

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Most of the port lining is the structure of picture 2, 

 

But I found that fleuron's port lining has a groove. Does anyone know what the groove is for?

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With at least one other French liner, the sill was curved, with a dip at the center.  Here, this is a step rather than a groove.  It probably has something to do with the heavy barrels of the large caliber main guns.  I would probably do Le Fleuron lower deck sills as a curve rather than a step.  I have no idea if these guns were ever traversed.  Given their weight, it would take something like a substantial peavey.   I suspect that the sill having an arc was a solution to something that was not a problem to begin with.  As drawn, the open end grain at the step would increase the possibility of fungal rot.

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