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The Mercury Draughts


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The Mercury draughts are nearing completion, and none too soon, given the time left until PIP. I've completed the Mercury in profile with full rigging and I have designed all of her cannons. I am currently working on her jollywatt, but the longboat is finished. I'm going to be asking a number of questions here on the Pub, so watch for them.

Here is a jpeg of the Mercury's longboat, which I recommend we call "the Gullah" (see Gullah here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullah ), based on Harry Smid's original suggestion for the brig sloop herself. She is shown with full rigging, though she would carry only oars for her regular duties. She is fashioned after drawings of the period, with some details borrowed from Chapman. Any opposition to calling her Gullah?

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Did they use the terms, Dorsal view, Stern elevation and so forth on period draughts? The words themselves are period or earlier, but I would love to know what terms to use. when doing the draughts for the Watch Dog, I simply used Bow and Stern and labeled the decks accordingly.

 

 

 

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Here are the many views of the 4 and 6 pounders of the Mercury. She carries 12 swivels and a combination of 12 4's and 6's. We Have about two dozen people attending the Mercury camp at PIP, so for those who are going to be in the Mercury Careening Camp this first year...you may now choose a name for the cannons and swivels. One name each. I wouldn't mind some period nicknames for cannon and I'll take them on a first come, first served basis.

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And...the Mercury herself. She is a brig-rigged sloop built after the order of Bermuda sloops. She is shown with details of her main top and fore top as well as the crosstrees. She is also shown carrying the longboat aft on davits after the fashion of English cutters, which allows her to carry a second small boat on the weatherdecks. She is based primarily off draughts of the Jamaican sloop, Ferret, built in 1711, though I have taken certain liberties to make her different cosmetically, including the addition of a second window on the larboard and starboard stern.

This is not the completed image, but it represents her rigging in the most complete form so far. I still have yet to decide on a figurehead, though I may do a winged, female version of Mercury.

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As always..superb work!! B)B)B)B)


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The Heron is an English cutter which is only marginally different in shape and size. The Heron, like the Ferret upon which the Mercury is based, was originally equipped with only one mast. The Heron has a fore and aft rigging, while the Mercury is now brig rigged. This is what the Ferret looked like with one mast. The Heron would be very similar.

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I did begin a draught for the Heron, which has taken a backseat to the Mercury for the present.

While it is very tiny, you can see the Heron in my signature picture. Left to Right: The Heron, The Watch Dog and the fluyt, Maastricht.

 

 

 

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Ricky, Lucy, Fred and Ethel... :lol:


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The Mercury is a twelve gun ship... six ports per side... plus swivels...

A fine ship if I do say so myself, heh...

I can't speak for Captain Brand, but as for left over prints, If he has any left after PIP, yes... otherwise, hard to say, but I'll not answer for him... even tho I kinda did.... :lol:

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Seabooger...?

While talking to Captain Sterling and Miss McDonough last night, it was suggested that we name all of the cannon after Roman gods. Jupiter, diana, Mars, etc. I also suggested naming them after the oceanids. In Greek and Roman mythology, the Oceanids were the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. One of these many daughters was also said to have been the wife of the god Poseidon, typically named as Amphitrite. Each of these nymphs was the patroness of a particular spring, river, ocean, lake, pond, pasture, flower or cloud.

Just some of the Oceanids...Acaste, Argia, Asia, Beroe, Kleodora, Calypso, Cerceis, Chryseis, Clio, Daira, Doris, Idyia, Electra, Europa, Galaxaure, Hippo, Ianira, Ianthe, Lysithea, Menestho, Metis, Nemesis, Perseis, Prymno, Rhodia, Styx, Telesto, Tyche

There are numerous good names to be had from mythology.

 

 

 

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"Seabooger"

Was a name given to me by the gracious crew that belong to Hurricane.

I think it might work. Ehh?

"Seabooger"??

Oh you are in for it now... :o


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If you're going to go with the Greek and Roman mythological names I like Tantalus, Nemesis, Fortuna, and Discordia.

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Donna comes from 1660 to 1670. It is Italian for "lady". It stems from the female form of dominus in Latin.

Random House Unabridged... 2006.

Somehow my mother got the name, though she's no lady. :)

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