1813 Privateer Young Teazer

[John Lyle]

I am trying to find plans of the Young Teazer. A US privateer, schooner, (I have seen reference to it being called a "colonial schooner") built in New York in 1813, launched in May, blown up end of June in Mahone Bay Nova Scotia. (Her surviving timbers cam be found in the Rope Loft pub in Chester Nova Scotis) She was owned by Samuel Adam's. Armaments were 5 guns ( size unknown) plus 3 dummy guns. Length overall 60 ft (does this include the bow sprit) and about 120 tons. Width unknown. I have seen sketches showing the foremast with square sails.
I have looked at Harold Hahns plans for the colonial top sail schooner HMS Halifax, six 3 pounders, later 8, length 58 ft on deck, beam 18' 3", and was wondering if this could be used (with some alterations) to depict the Young Teazer.

 

[AllanKP69]

I have looked at Harold Hahns plans for the colonial top sail schooner HMS Halifax, and was wondering if this could be used (with some alterations) to depict the Young Teazer.

Looking at contemporary plans are RMG, the 1797 French Halifax looks more like the paintings/drawings of Young Teazer although the drawings are modern and may be wrong. Maybe take a look at all of them and decide which makes more sense to you. https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/search/ Halifax plans There are a lot of plans and models of schooners at the RMG, Collections website like the one below of the American schooner Sea Lark and maybe one or more of them will be a better fit.
Allan

 

[Roger Pellett]

It’s probable that no plans were ever drawn. The small shipyards that built these small schooners usually began with a half model; either one carved from a laminated block of wood or a Hawks Nest model. The Hawks Nest model was similar to a modern POB but instead of planking it had several longitudinal ribbands nailed to bulkheads to define the hull.

Once all concerned parties approved the half model, it was used to produce a Table of Offsets. The carved models were taken apart and measurements could be taken directly from the the Hawks Nest model. The Table of Offsets recorded information in Feet, Inches, and Eighths.

Using The Table of Offsets the lines of the schooner’s lines were thenscribed full size on the Mould Loft floor. Since the measurements from the half model were blown up by the factor of the scale, the loftsmen often had to correct unfairness and some times changes made by the owner or shipwright.

These scribed mould loft lines were then used to make patterns of all moulded shapes; frame parts, stem, and sternpost from which the vessel was built.

Allan found a drawing of Sea Lark in the RMG archives because she was either captured or purchased by the British. If they liked her performance they would have taken off her measurements and prepared a drawing for further study.

Roger