Gangways

[Don Case]

Working on the Discovery1789. Peter Goodwin seems to indicate that about this time all/most ships would have had gangways. Steel, in 1805 lists scantlings for "gangboards". Ships Repository 1788 doesn't list anything for gangways or gangboards(are they the same thing?) All that said my limited drawings don't really show gangways. She definitely has a separate quarterdeck and forecastle so they weren't to the point of decking over the waist. What would you think the odds are that the Discovery had gangways?

 

[Uwek]

I do not think, that she had some.
and there was also no reasson, why she would have needed gangways, because there was need on such type of ship to walk fastly from quarterdeck to forecastle.
Definitely as a mortar ship not, because they would hinder the shooting of the mortar...... and later I guess there was also no need