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Figure 6. 



hull bad been split along the middle line and then 

 planked up flat where spin. Hie bulls are separated 

 l>\ the race, in which the paddle wheel is placed at 

 mid-lcmjth. The lopsidcs arc made elliptical at the 

 ends, and the midsection shows a marked tumble- 

 home ovei the thick topside planking but less on the 

 moulded lines. 



The lines plan agreed rather closely to Montgery's 

 description of the hull. \l t ■ i careful fairing it was 

 found the lines drawing would produce .1 vessel 153 



feet -' inches over. ill outside the steins, or about 1 il 



feet over the planked rabbets, with a moulded beam 

 of 56 feet and extreme beam oi 58 feet. The moulded 



depth was J-' feet 9 inches and the width of the race 

 was I 1 feet Hi inches, plank to plank. The room and 

 space of framing shown was 2 feet. The designed 

 draft appears to be 13 feet and this would bring the 

 poi t sills 5 feel 6 inches above the loadline and the 



underside of the gun-deck he. mis aboul 2 feet '* inches 

 al>o\ e the loadline. 



The lines plan is a Danish Copy, piolialih of the 

 building plan by Noah Broun, and may be based on 

 the plan MontgeV) obtained from Brown. I 1 1<- spar 

 deck has the iron stanchions (Gurlej translated these 



as "chandeliers") which are set inboard I feet from 

 the plank-sheer. This gives room lor cotton hales. 



outboard th< stanchions, to form a barricade As 

 will be seen b) comparing the original Danish drawing 

 with the model drawing, the construction indicates 

 that the a on stanchions should be carried around the 

 ends of the hull in the same manner as along the sides, 

 since the lower ends of the iron stanchions pass through 

 the sp.n deck and are secured to the inside of the 

 inner ceiling of the gun deck. The rudders aie as 

 shown in the Danish drawing, and it is supposed that 

 the\ were- operated tern lioat fashion, one at each end 

 of the vessel. Hence, each pan of rudders was 

 toggled together by a cross-yoke. This was probably 

 ope 1 .iied I iv a tiller (possibly the cross-yokes and tillers 

 w ei e 1 it iron 1 pi\ oted under the beams of the gun deck 



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