Index of French plans in the Danish archive

[Martes]

https://www.aamm.fr/archives/neptunia/articles/plansdanois

 

[Emerge]

Great find, just what I have been looking for!

 

[Martes]

The same for Swedish Naval Historical Museum

French ships

https://digitaltmuseum.org/search?q=franska%20ritning&mode=text&owner=S-SMM-SM&media=true

and British

https://digitaltmuseum.org/search?q=engelska%20ritning&mode=text&owner=S-SMM-SM&media=true

 

[Emerge]

Many years ago I also came across Swedish Naval Historical Museum archive. But it was a mess trying to search for anything. But this is the way to go, thanks!

 

[Emerge]

Do you happen to know of a up to date sail ship drawing archive list per country?

I know most of the ones here in the Netherlands. For example Nationaal archief (Dutch navy):

4.MST Inventaris van de bouwtekeningen van schepen van de Nederlandse Marine, 1683-1996

www.nationaalarchief.nl

And one of the often overlooked local museum like for example:

Collectie | Fries Scheepvaart Museum

Bekijk de collectie van het Fries Scheepvaart Museum online. Hier vind je de volledige collectie, ook alles uit het depot.

friesscheepvaartmuseum.nl

 

[AllanKP69]

For English the RMG Collections site has thousands of drawings in low resolution. They can all be purchased in high resolution. About 800 of them can be found in high resolution for free on the Wiki Commons site. A couple years ago I downloaded all of the 800 high res drawings (45 giga bytes) in case that site crashes down the road. As the ships listed are in alphabetical order and there are another 2000 in low res, I created folders for the high res drawings by number of guns and what each of the drawings are within the folders. I also added contracts where available within the folders and low res drawings if any were missing for a particular ship in high res. Would love to see SoS set up some way to give every member access and the ability to add more high res drawings to the mix.
Allan

 

[Martes]

For English the RMG Collections site has thousands of drawings in low resolution.

Thing is, the Swedish collection - and the Danish at that - contains various English ships or plan versions that are not present in RMG - such as privateers or decoration plans, or just missing ships. So they are more complementary than anything else.

 

[Martes]

And one of the often overlooked local museum like for example:

Didn't know about this one, thanks!

 

[WojtasS]

Thich have much more French ship then the ones on that list. Just need to check them alphabetically. Unfortunately some files are hidden or not available online

Arkivalieronline - Rigsarkivet

Arkivalieonline – Se originale dokumenter på nettet

arkivalieronline.rigsarkivet.dk

Arkivalieronline - Rigsarkivet

Arkivalieonline – Se originale dokumenter på nettet

arkivalieronline.rigsarkivet.dk

 

[Martes]

have much more French ship then the ones on that list.

Oh, of course there are much more, but somebody made that list and that could be a good start point before digging deeper.

 

[Emerge]

For English the RMG Collections site has thousands of drawings in low resolution. They can all be purchased in high resolution. About 800 of them can be found in high resolution for free on the Wiki Commons site. A couple years ago I downloaded all of the 800 high res drawings (45 giga bytes) in case that site crashes down the road. As the ships listed are in alphabetical order and there are another 2000 in low res, I created folders for the high res drawings by number of guns and what each of the drawings are within the folders. I also added contracts where available within the folders and low res drawings if any were missing for a particular ship in high res. Would love to see SoS set up some way to give every member access and the ability to add more high res drawings to the mix.
Allan

Indeed Greenwich has a great collection. But why does a public funded museum has to ask so much money for HQ drawings is something I do not understand?

Did you download those free available drawings at Wiki Commons site by hand or is there a smart trick to download them all at ones?

I also dream of a super collection where all ship are brought together with plans en decoration schemes and paintings from all the various museum in the world. But so far the best one is my limited hard drive.

 

[AllanKP69]

Did you download those free available drawings at Wiki Commons site by hand or is there a smart trick to download them all at ones?

One at a time to download. There are 3000 drawings there and more than 2000 are low resolution so no advanage over the RMG Collections website. I wish there was a faster way. It really was not that difficult as I set up folders for each size ship based on number of guns. I opened folders for the high res plans for boats and bomb vessels as well. Adding contracts in each folder where possible sort of completed the process. Labor of love, but worth it as it is now very easy to find reference drawings.
Allan