Staghound 1850 by rwiederrich - 1/96 - Extreme Clipper

[rwiederrich]

55 minutes ago, Snug Harbor Johnny said:

  Um,  I suppose a gang of Pirates could be considered navel 'hoods' ... 😉 

 

Witty tongue and cheek....I suppose they could if that tactic was used for changing the subject.  When one compiles all the facts.....one would wonder why then, when Duncan McLean says clearly that a patent windless was mounted under the forecastle, beneath her patented capstan.....that scale model drawers of her plans, always draw the standard wood windless at the edge of her forecastle deck....causing modelers to inaccurately model her forecastle and windless.......?   Now THAT is the true act of piracy....IMV.

 

Excerpt from Clipperfan:  "

Donald McKay jealously guarded his nautical design secrets. I believe he was so successful that one of his key components have been lost to Modeler's for centuries. Until now. Thanks to Michael Mjelde's generosity in sharing ultra rare Glory of the Seas photos, we now have incontrovertible proof of these rare structures. But you don't have to take my word for it. Here are excerpts from The Boston Daily Atlas write-up: "She has neither head nor trailboards, but forming the extreme, where the line of the planksheer and the carved work on the naval hoods terminate, she has the full figure of an angel on the wing, with a trumpet raised to her mouth "... Later in his description of this largest merchant ship in the world, McLean observes the ruggedness of this unique bow structure: "Her hood ends are bolted alternately from either side, through each other and the stem so that the loss of her cutwater would not affect her safety or cause a leak." (italics added by me to emphasize specific components) Here's a link to the entire article:

http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1851-04-25).html"

Edited 4 hours ago by rwiederrich

[rwiederrich]

Another image of the clipper Amy Turned....showing no evidence of the famous, McKay *Hood*.  Notice how the stem is utterly unprotected, and vulnerable? 

 

 

[rwiederrich]

Further excerpts from Clipperfan:   " Another detail that commercial models get wrong is placement of the anchor chain hawse hole. That's due to the fact that they've completely missed inclusion of the devices I just enumerated, and which can be clearly seen here. What simply blows my mind is that this unusual prow arrangement has been on every McKay clipper, save one, the Great Republic since Donald McKay debuted his inaugural extreme clipper Stag Hound December 1850! Correct placement of this hawse hole is immediately below the base of the naval hoods, as can be clearly seen in this remarkable image. I sincerely hope these factual insights will enable you to create your most accurate Flying Cloud model that you desire".

 

[sob]

re: patented capstan & Flying Cloud

see https://www.sobco.com/ship_model/fc/details/capstans.htm

in particular

"The Monthly Nautical Magazine of May 1855 says that Allyn's patent power capstans^[7] had been furnished to the Flying Cloud within “the past year”^[8], implying that the original capstans had been replaced. That leaves mahogany and brass, something McKay was using around the time he built the Flying Cloud, as the likely materials for the Flying Cloud’s original capstans.  "

[sob]

ps - the drawing in the 1853 McLean booklet on the Great Republic shows that the ship had wooden capstans

see http://www.sobco.com/ship_model/Great_Republic/Great_Republic_McLean_plate_6.pdf

 

the capstan itself

 

[sob]

ps - if someone is interested - the entry point for the McLean booklet on the Great Republic is

https://www.sobco.com/ship_model/Great_Republic/index.html

 

I posted a pdf of the booklet and pdfs of each of the drawings which claim to show details of the

construction of the ship and was published about the same time was the ship was built (and before

she burned) Since I have found no evidence that McLean was a draftsman I assume the drawings were

done by someone under the supervision of McKay himself.