Dimensions and Sizes of Materials for Building a Frigate of 36 guns.
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Dimensions and Sizes of Materials for Building a Frigate of 36 guns.
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Detailed list of the materials needed for building a 36 gun frigate and the dimensions and sizes for those materials.
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Doc, des material dimensions re frigate
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Joshua Humphreys
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standards knees
gun deck lodging knees
hanging knees
spirkiting
filling in plank
mast comings
long cornings
Stemson
apron
leaden scuppers
counter timbers
gallery door
lower part of the window
red cedar
freenails
best heart locust
dimensions and sizes of materials for building a frigate of 36 guns
length of the gun deck from the rabit of the stern to port
length of keel for tonage allowing 3/5 of beam
rabit of the stern from the breadth line
strikes on the keel to the rabit of the port
moulded breadth of beam in the extream part of the ship
upper edge of the second wale
inches
length of the wing transom above the rabbit of the keel
lower deck
top side tumbles home amidships at the under part of the midship's plankshear
covering board
plank or lower deck beams
gun deck plank
upper deck plank
waist amidships
plank shear
lower edge of the wale
depth in the hold taken from the streak next the limber streak
heigth of pontcills on the quarter deck and forecastle
ports on the gun deck
up and down
fore and aft
distance between the ports
bridle or bow port
square line above the rabbit of the keel
stern
dead raising
beam for the breadth of floor
room and space
breadth line amidships
quarter deck and forecastle drifts
flush drifts
strings or first moulding streak above the ports
good sound white oak
clear of the main and fore steps
midships
scarphs all to be tabled
bolted with five bolts
floor and keelson bolts are drove and riveted
main or foremast steps
hooked and jogled into the lower one
bolts through every timber and one in every cross chock
stem
stem post
piece will work below
aft side at the keel to be fitted for a crooked headed rudder
inner post
Night heads
knightheads
run down below the lower deck breast hook
bow timbers
heel well secured into the deadwood
Hause holes
wing transom
lower deck transom moulded as broad as conveniently can be had for the better securing the ends of the deck plank
fashion pieces
dead wood
secure the scarph of the stem and keel together
garboard streaks
dead wood to be tarred and papered with good thick substantial barred sheathing paper in order to prevent the ship from sinking if she should lose her keel
floor and raising timbers
bottled through the keel
give room on the other side for the keelson bolts
starboard side
mizenmast
foremast
timbers-framed
fathooks
main wales
black streake
metered down to a level in order to carry the water out of the seam
running plank in the bottom
great care must be taken to level both edges of the plank
caulk
bilge streaks
running ceiling plank
lower deck clamps
steps of masts
foresteps to be placed between 2 breast hooks
mizen steps to be two crotchets, the arms of which ought to run up as high as possible
pillars or stantions
Bacast hooks
transom riders
diagonal riders
shorter ones to complete the pair
iron bolts
copper bolts
best heart pitch pine
lodging knees
dagger knees
joggle down
lower deck transom knees
carlings
ledges
mast carlings
mizen carlings
kneed in the same manner
gun deck carlings
spur beam
main hatch
solid waterways
streaks on each side fitted as above
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| [view document] (0 pages) | BBD05 (0 pages) | Collection: Josiah Fox (1763 - 1847) Letterbook Papers. Reel #5 Series 1 Naval Architecture Shipbuilding Papers | P: 7 |
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| Type | Name | Location | Notes |
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| Author | Joshua Humphreys | [unknown] | [n/a] |