Help for Galleon S. Giovanni Battista 1569

[Giorgik63]

Hello everyone, I'm building the Medici galleon S. Giovanni Battista in 1:48 scale, not in the arsenal. I was wondering if there is internal banding of the bulwarks on the various decks of the galleon. You can help me ?

[Louie da fly]

I'm not sure I understand the question. Can you provide a picture of the kind of thing you're considering?

 

Steven

[Giorgik63]

On 9/28/2023 at 11:57 AM, Louie da fly said:

Louie da fly: Sorry, unfortunately I can't write English well. Please look at the attachment

 

[allanyed]

Purely a guess but unless things changed drastically between the 16th and 17th century there would have been inboard planking.   The below is from a 17th century set of scantlings where you can see dimensions of various planking inboard for the 6 rates of ship.

 

[Roger Pellett]

The technical name for this inboard planking is “ceiling”.

[Giorgik63]

Thank you allanyed, Roger Pellett

[Louie da fly]

The Villefranche wreck (Genoese carrack, sank 1516), also known as the Lomellina, had internal planking from the bilge up to the level of the lowest deck. It was not planked internally above that level.

 

The English Mary Rose (sank 1545) was fully planked internally

The San Juan (Basque whaling ship, sank sometime around 1550) was not internally planked

 

So it appears that not all ships in this period were internally planked. This may have been a time of transition - and it appears that the more important ships, and later ships, were fully planked inside, but not those less important or earlier in the 16th century. Your galleon is both later and more important, so I think it probably would have been planked inside.

 

Steven 

[Giorgik63]

Thanks for this information and photo. There is talk of a ship from my region, Liguria, and from Genoa. 😃