Gun deck Plans needed if they exist

[Paul Gardner]

I turned a 6" Naval gun barrel out of 10-20 cold roll steel. I would like to build a lower gun deck section such as would be from HMS Victory or other frigates.  Can any of you point me to plans, exploded drawings or anything that could help me? Thank you.

[Fritzlindsay]

There are plans for Victory 1737 and 1765 and thousands of  other ships on the RMG Collections Website in low resolution. https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/search/Victory plans There are about 800 of these in high resolution on the Wiki Commons website. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ship_plans_of_the_Royal_Museums_Greenwich.  British gun patterns that would be appropriate, depending on the year of the ship would  be one of those below.  Also, the carriage designs changed a lot over time so matching the carriage to the gun pattern is something else to consider.

Fritz

The below is a typical plan of a lower gun deck.  This happens to be a lower gun deck for a 64 gun ship the Inflexible. 

 

You might want to consider a cross section model instead of the entire deck. One example dated 1808 is below

 

Edited 19 hours ago by Fritzlindsay

[thibaultron]

The Model Ship Builder Site has plans for a two deck battle station at:

 

https://modelshipbuilder.com/projects.html

 

Several years ago one of that forums members offered a limited edition kit (with their permission) and wrote up a practicum for building it. While the kit is long out of production, the praticum is also on that Web page.