Endeavour by Bill97 - OcCre - 1/54

[Bill97]

Thanks Trevor. You have been extremely helpful. 

[Kenchington]

Glad to assist where I can!

[Bill97]

So Trevor I guess the easiest thing would be just to stow them on deck maybe. However I think I am confused. Are the fish davits just used to hoist the anchor and then stowed away once the anchor is locked in the weighed position or are they part of the weighed setup?  Are they still helping to support the anchor the entire time it is secured on the side of the ship?

[Kenchington]

My understanding is that fish davits, of the era you are portraying, were stowed away when not actually in use for raising an anchor up to its stowage position.

 

Have a good look at contemporary sources before showing your ship with no anchors on the bows. I don't doubt that there almost always some on deck but there may also have been some on the bows (unless they were on the bottom of some anchorage). If they were brought inboard when out in mid-ocean, then one would expect the sails to be set if the anchors are on deck. Not that you would be wrong to show the ship that way but it would look a bit odd to someone expecting to see the anchors outboard, if the anchors were in and all sails furled.

[alpayed]

Hi guys.

On a collier like Endeavour the anchors were carried as shown here. Best bower and second bower were catted and stowed as shown.

I have not shown the shank painter or the securing of the sheet and kedge anchors stored on the fore channels.

She would have carried spare anchors in the hold.

The fish davit was moved from place to place and probably stored in the channels when not used.

 

[Bill97]

Ok great. My curiosity kenchington was, as you stated above, the fish davits were stowed away when not actually in use.  alpayed I am leaving the anchors at the bow. So my question was once the anchors were raised with the help of the fish davits and fixed in position was the fish davit then stowed away? From what you guys are saying I think it was. So if I have my anchors on the bow then the fish davits should be stowed away not sticking out as mine are now. I need to remove them and stow on deck somewhere. 

Edited 4 hours ago by Bill97