Wood deck on steam tug

[Patrick Matthews]

I'm attempting to do a more-correct version of the Dumas Brooklyn tug, and am stuck on the deck.

 

Brooklyn (designed 1910) had a steel hull and steel deck beams, but an all-wood deck. The kit would have us scribe plywood sheet with a straight fore-aft planking pattern. Doesn't seem right.

 

Brooklyn's deck house sides "parallel" the deck edge in plan view, and the one cross section view we have from the original plans show 3x3 pine deck planks between the waterways. (Is the beveled plank adjacent to the deck house also a "waterway"?).  Anyway, this suggests that the planking would follow the deck edge curvature over the fore & after decks, which leads to joggling at a central king plank. But I have found no plan or photographic evidence that this was done on tugs of this era. 

 

Anyone have better info before I go and joggle a whole bunch of planks in vain? 

Edited 20 hours ago by Patrick Matthews

[Patrick Matthews]

Well, I found a video and a still of W.O. Decker that show:

- Planks curving to follow the deck edge;

- Apparently NO joggling at the king plank, just pointy-ended planks. 

 

I wonder if that's the original layout?

[Patrick Matthews]

And here is Decker's foredeck during restoration. 
Hmm, I have to assume this is being done in a prototypical fashion?

And nothing like Brooklyn's 3x3 deck planks!