Planset review LA VOLAGE – A long bark / Barque longue - 1693 in scale 1:24 or 1:36 by Jean-Claude Lemineur

Uwek said:
Planset Review:
LA VOLAGE
A long bark / Barque longue
1693
Scale 1:24 or 1:36
by Jean-Claude Lemineur

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Brand new release, just some days ago published and already in the french version on my desk - many thanks to Dider Berti from ancre for the fast and safe postage.

This very comprehensive and detailed monograph / planset is available directly via ancre web-page

https://ancre.fr/en/monograph/114-l...html#/langue-english_complete_monograph_1_36e

The monograph is available in french, italian, spanish or english language (english on end of January)
and also you can choose between 1:24 or 1:36

Some excerpts from the ancre web-page:

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Size of the model

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SYNOPSIS:

This new monograph is concerned with the study of a long bark, the Volage, built in Dunkirk in 1693, in the middle of the War of the Great Alliance by René Levasseur, the first master shipwright who succeded Hendrick who died in 1689.

The Volage was a warship of Louis XIV French Royal Navy. Armed with ten 4-pdrs, with a burthen of 50 tons and a 50-man crew, she was one the biggest of her class with a length of 63 ½ feet.

In the Navy records of 1696 to 1702, reported as being good, and even sharp under sail. Realy built for privateering, she possessed nautical properties that allowed her to overtake her preys, and therefore, to be highly apprciated by Dunkirk privateers.

It was aboard a similar bark that Jean Bart began his talented career as a privateer captain in 1674 during the conflict with the United Provinces of the Low Countries.

The Volage participated in the guerilla warfare initiated by Vauban and from 1693, by the Royal Navy itself against English trading fleets, within the framework of the War of the Great Alliance. Her activities probably continued during the War of Spanish Succession. Ordinarily, she insured the safety of the French coasts, protecting merchant vessels from piratical raiding. Her missions extended to the protection of fishing fleets on the Newfoundland Grand Banks. She was striken from the Navy list in 1706, hauled ashore and rebuilt at Dieppe, probably for a private ship owner.

The Volage, a regular ship of war has nothing in common with the Belle, built at Rochefort in 1684 by Pierre Masson, which was an ordinary bark rigged as a corvette.

The reconstruction of the Volage was carried out using two specifications to be found in a manuscript preserved at the Paris Navy Museum, one of them contains the dimensions and the other one the rigging. They were used to describe her architecture and the characteristics of her construction. To these documents, is added information obtained from a memoir by Hendricks about his method for drafting ships lines.

Military long barks are a subject that was long overlooked. The reader will find in this document, treated in exhaustive detail, all the details susceptible of informing him about the ship. It will provide ship modelers with the opportunity to build a particularly realistic model.



CONTENTS

The book is presented in a blue fabric-covered 24x31 cm box containing a 104-page brochure that includes the sources, history and plates in a reduced scale, along with commentaries and a 16-page color brochure containing details of rigged and timbered models, as well as the 31 plates at the 1/26th scale necessary to build the structure.

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Contents of the booklet

Chapter 1 History and origins of the long bark
The Volage's own characteristics

Chapter 2 The careers of the Dunkirk master shipwrights
List of the barks built from 1671 to 1727

Chapter 3 The use of the sources and determination of the underwater hull lines
Volumetric characteristics of the underwater hull
Notes and decoration and paint of the shipwright

Chapter 4 Study of the rigging. Notes on the masts, sails and blocks

Chapter 5 Commentaries on the 31 reduced plates

Chapter VI Routing of the rigging lines


List of the plates / drawings

Plate N° 1 Schematic elevation and body plans
Plate N° 2 Schematic plan view
Plate N° 3 Construction of the stern
Plate N° 4 Construction of the hawse pieces
Plate N° 5 Midship frame and forward frames 1 to 4
Plate N° 6 - 11 Frames 6 – 11
Plate N° 12 Timbered elevation
Plate N° 13 Lengthwise section
Plate N° 14 - 16 Cross sections at some frames
Plate N° 17 Plans of accomodations
Plate N° 18 Plan of the bilge
Plate N° 19 Plan of the bare deck
Plate N° 20 Plan of the deck with furniture
Plate N° 21 Plan of the deck and castles
Plate N° 22 Plan of the finished deck and castles
Plate N° 23 Bare elevation
Plate N° 24 Dressed elevation
Plate N° 25 Front view of the stern
Plate N° 26 Construction of the head and the ship's boat
Plate N° 27 Furniture and artillery
Plate N° 28 Masts
Plate N° 29-30 Sails and boat's frames
Plate N° 31 The Volage under sail


To have a detailed LOOK INSIDE the booklet, the photo brochure and the drawings please take a look at the following posts
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Hi,
Why are these two lines not parallel to each other?
Rather, it's an unusual situation.

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Janusz said:
Hi,
Why are these two lines not parallel to each other?
Rather, it's an unusual situation.
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It is not so unusual on smaller ships

The keel is often not parallel with the waterline.

Take a look f.e. also at the Le Coureur

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BTW:
In my opinion a ship model should be also presented on a stand showing this angle - means the base should be parallel to the waterline
But it is personal taste
 
Uwek said:
It is not so unusual on smaller ships

The keel is often not parallel with the waterline.

Take a look f.e. also at the Le Coureur

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BTW:
In my opinion a ship model should be also presented on a stand showing this angle - means the base should be parallel to the waterline
But it is personal taste
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Good morning Uwek, also to give a right angle of the real construction that many notice that they do not adopt baseline with construction line
 
Uwek said:
It is not so unusual on smaller ships

The keel is often not parallel with the waterline.

Take a look f.e. also at the Le Coureur

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BTW:
In my opinion a ship model should be also presented on a stand showing this angle - means the base should be parallel to the waterline
But it is personal taste
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Good morning Uwek
This greatly complicates the construction of the hull (the frames are at an angle to the keel ).
Maybe it was so.
Model presentation - you are right.
 
Janusz said:
Good morning Uwek
This greatly complicates the construction of the hull (the frames are at an angle to the keel ).
Maybe it was so.
Model presentation - you are right.
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It is complicating it a bit, yes - but I think it can be handled, because the frame drawings in the planset are prepared for this

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In the booklet you can find also some photos showing the temporary construction jig where the keel is inclinded and the frames are vertical standing on the inclined keel

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So you need in principle the inclined keel and adjusted floor timbers
 
Uwek said:
It is complicating it a bit, yes - but I think it can be handled, because the frame drawings in the planset are prepared for this

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In the booklet you can find also some photos showing the temporary construction jig where the keel is inclinded and the frames are vertical standing on the inclined keel

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So you need in principle the inclined keel and adjusted floor timbers
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Good afternoon, some more information on Uwe post

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You have to be always very careful to compare french with english shipbuilding. The frames on English ships were perpendicular to the keel and not to the waterline.
I don't know what the common praxis by French ships was. But I am a little bit surprised about the method of this special ship.
 
AnobiumPunctatum said:
You have to be always very careful to compare french with english shipbuilding. The frames on English ships were perpendicular to the keel and not to the waterline.
I don't know what the common praxis by French ships was. But I am a little bit surprised about the method of this special ship.
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Good afternoon, the French Navy also had this system, perpendicular to the keel but always respecting a baseline with the construction line.
 
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Frank48 said:
Good afternoon, the French Navy also had this system, perpendicular to the keel but always respecting a baseline with the construction line.
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this information which Boudriot states "The trim of the ship is such that the cargo waterline is not parallel to the keel; thus the ship will draw more water aft than bow. The designer draws a number of equidistant lines parallel to the line. of cargo waterline, and the points of intersection with the station lines determine the contour of these water lines, the shape of which allows the designer to "equate" the station lines, and make any necessary corrections. "
 
another process that they do not perform is this "Among all the blades of the keel, wheel and opposing wheel, intermediate pieces of felt (very hairy pannolan), the caulking has the task of verifying that there is a pemo or ankle in all the holes drilled, some of which may not be blocked by oversight, the sealant generally lines the cutting edge with a lead blade and fixes it with stopparoli (or stropparoli), wide flat-headed nails and a 2.7 cm long shank. Sometimes the keel batten and some comments on the transom of the mast are also made of lead which, due to the weight and tensions of the shrouds, exerts a constant action on this area which tends to open the comments. explained.
 
Super project! Only here is a question for the authors of the La Vollage monograph: how did the sailors climb onto the forecastle without a ladder? Jumped with a run or used a capstan bar for a push ? This is probably how the game of golf pole vault was invented.
 
Archi said:
Super project! Only here is a question for the authors of the La Vollage monograph: how did the sailors climb onto the forecastle without a ladder? Jumped with a run or used a capstan bar for a push ? This is probably how the game of golf pole vault was invented.
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Maybe because of your point the modeler of this model made the forecastle shorter, than shown in the drawings
With this a young seaman can easily climb via the capstan - but also a small vertical ladder on each side would be possible

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