Jury and emergency rudder

[Uwek]

The naval history is full of broken or lost rudders

A jury rudder
is a makeshift arrangement to give a ship the ability to steer when it has lost its rudder.

From: jury rig in << The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea >>



East Indiaman Henry Addington with a jury rudder

East Indiaman Henry Addington with a jury rudder | Royal Museums Greenwich

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HMS Grafton, fitted with a jury rudder, etc, for her voyage to England, after the storm off Louisbourg, 1757

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His Majesty's Ship the Grafton Commodore Charles Holmes, Commander, As she sailed to England with a Machine Constructed instead of her Rudder, which she lost in the late storm off Louisbourgh. Drawn by an Officer

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15 November 1811. HMS St. George collides with another ship and sails aground at Rødsand. All masts and the rudder are lost. St. George is freed from the shoal after 30 hours and fitted with jury rig and rudder, made from timber obtained from Cressy. The rudder was of the type devised by Thomas Pakenham.

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Tamar (1758)
Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, an outboard profile and plan view of the Tamar (1758), a 16-gun ship sloop. The plan specifically illustrates the jury rudder made on the return voyage to Britain after she lost her rudder through electrolysis between the copper sheathing and iron rudder pintles [see Mariner's Mirror, volume 87, No. 4 (Nov 2001)].

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several Jury rudder models are shown in the Rijksmuseum

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[AllanKP69]

Fantastic post! These are great paintings, drawing, samples &c.

Allan

 

[Uwek]

Another Temporary rudder

Temporary Rudder (circa 1839)​

Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the stern quarter elevation, plan and section of the rudder and gudgeon brace, and the elevation of of the lower part of the rudder with the brace in the hanging position for a proposed temporary rudder. See title for full explanation (Inscriptions).

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Elevation of a temporary rudder for warships (circa 1840)​

No scale. Plan showing an elevation (with description) for fitting a temporary rudder on warships.

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Page taken from log book of HMS Rodney, 1838 showing a temporary rudder, fitted to HMS Rodney​

Page taken from log book of HMS Rodney, 1838 showing a temporary rudder, fitted to HMS Rodney | Royal Museums Greenwich

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[Uwek]

and a highly interesting section model of a stern with temporary rudder

HMS Pique (1834); Warship; 40 gun frigate​

Scale: Unknown. A model depicting the stern and temporary rudders of the 40 gun frigate HMS Pique (1834), mounted in a contemporary wood-framed display case. The model has been realistically painted with a black hull and wide band of white, and a copper colour below the waterline. The windows of the stern gallery and quarter galleries have been depicted with cream-coloured frames and green glass lights. The central stern gallery window has been removed leaving six windows shown. The temporary rudder has been made in varnished wood, brass and a natural cord, or fine rope. It is shown in position rigged to a lashed wheel by a continuous length of cord via a pair of rail-mounted pulley blocks, a further pair of pulley blocks mounted at either end of a laterally rigged yard and finally the bottom of the rudder itself. The yard is attached to the forward face of the stern section by two brass ring bolts and also the rear of the display case. The keel of the model is mounted on a black-painted plinth which, in turn, is secured to the floor of the display case. The case is glazed at the front, both sides and top, the rear of the case being hessian-backed. The frame of the case has been black-lacquered.

At the top of the rear of the case a label has been secured with drawing pins in each of its four corners which reads "Model of the stern of H.M.S. "Pique", with six models of rudders to be temporarily shipped in case of loss of rudder at sea. H.M.S. "Pique", a 40 gun frigate, designed by Rear-Admiral Sir William Symonds, CB, and built at Plymouth in 1834, was 160 feet long, 48 feet 10 1/2 inches broad and 14 feet 7 inches deep. Her measurement equalling 1633 tons. She was employed on the Portuguese coast during the British intervention in the Carlist war of 1837 assisted to look after British interests at the time of the French operations in Mexico in 1838-39; was on the coast of Syria in 1840 and shared in the bombardment and capture of Beirut Kaiffa and Joan D'Arc and was also present at the attack on Petropaulovski. Kamschatka in 1854. On the 22nd September, 1835 she ran ashore on the coast of Labrador and after being refloated, lost her rudder. Two temporary rudders were fitted at different times but these were carried away in bad weather. Eventually she sailed 1500 miles rudderless steered by means of a hawser and arrived home on the 13th October of the same year. Presented by W. Henby RN.".

HMS Pique (1834); Warship; 40 gun frigate | Royal Museums Greenwich

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