66 55/95 tons US Revenue drop-keel Cutter by Small Stuff - 1/24 - plans by H.I.Chapelle

[harvey1847]

Good morning Stan!

 

You do not have to enlarge de draw... ! It´s already scaled to 1.24 if you want it to 1:32 just PM me.

 

 

daniel.

[Small Stuff]

As I'm fed up

with the unability of my TurboCAD14 to open Daniel's drawings

I decided to buy the newest XX. edition!!!

So I did...  

[Small Stuff]

Still getting used to the TurboCAD20 2D Editin... so:

[Small Stuff]

DigiCam2USB-wire was found some seconds ago!!! So after the weekend&party here,

And there 'll be some new pictures..

The cat played with it

untill it was gone unter the cupboard

and left there for the vacuumcleaner's snorkel

Edited February 28, 2014 by Small Stuff

[Small Stuff]

Hello friends

 

after a row of senseless eye operations I'm back in here... working on the Chapelle-plans. 

 

That's all in here.

 

Yours

Stan

 

Edit here the drawingboard:

Edited May 12, 2015 by Small Stuff

[Bill Wells]

As good as Howard I. Chapelle was, he made errors in interpretation of drawings and other factors.

In this discussion of US Revenue Cutter Louisiana (II) of 1819, his assumptions were misplaced.
She, like her twin, Alabama, were built by Christian Bergh in New York City.  Both of the same pilot boat schooner rig.  52 feet in keel and 56 tons.  There is no evidence that Bergh used Doughty's plans.  However, every shipbuilder of the period stole the good ideas and designs of the others.   Bergh's price was $4,500 each.

There was no pivot gun.  The ever fiscally cheap U. S. Treasury Department found the expense to high and removed them the contract.  In their place were two small 3-pounders.  Later from New Orleans, Louisiana's captain the villainous Jarius Loomis, asked for four 6-pounders.  He did not get them.  Other models and comments about both indicate there was no bulwark.  There was,  a short one, but one still there.

Louisiana (I) was built in 1804 and by 1812 lay abandoned and in extreme disrepair at New Orleans. The hurricane of 1812 sunk her and from there sold to the State of Louisiana, raised, refitted in time for the famous Battle of New Orleans.

Christian Bergh also built Alert (I) in 1818.  This Alert was a bit larger and had eight gun ports.

Although not a model builder, I have been researching the USRCS since about 1892.  If anyone is looking for details, I may be able to help.  I don't have all but in my research I have located over a dozen cutters the Coast Guard was unaware.   It is all about record keeping.

As for my comment about Loomis.  In 1819, he in Louisiana with Alabama, re-seized a Spanish merchant vessel that had been captured by a LaFitte vessel, Le Brave.  In the process of transferring the goods, Loomis stole a small chest with doubloons, jewels, and other coins all worth in 1819 dollars about $3000. About $65,742.05 in2020 dollars.  To keep his officers quiet, he gave them part of the loot.  However, one officer when questioned about the missing items, confessed and gave up his share - or the share he said he got.  Louisana (II0 has the distinction of being the only U. S. revenue cutter in U. S. History to have executed by hanging two pirates on board.

The whole story is here https://www.academia.edu/25596743/Hanging_Le_Brave