Taras Pevny
Richard Barker brought to my attention another early example of a French draft with design diagonals that was first reproduced in The Mariner's Mirror (Anderson 1942: Plate 1). Preserved in the Danish Admiralty archives, it is a copy of a French draft of the three deck 112-gun Royal Louis of 1692 built by François Coulomb in Toulon...
P-NOTES FIGURE 1. Draft of the 1692 three deck 112-gun Royal Louis built
by François Coulomb in Toulon. This copy is preserved in the archives
of the Danish Admiralty. (After Anderson 1942:Plate 1)
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P-NOTES FIGURE 2. Body plan detail from the draft of the Royal Louis. |
Richard Barker brought to my attention another early example of a French draft with design diagonals that was first reproduced in The Mariner's Mirror (Anderson 1942: Plate 1). Preserved in the Danish Admiralty archives, it is a copy of a French draft of the three deck 112-gun Royal Louis of 1692 built by François Coulomb in Toulon...