The first element of the interior is the ballast box which I prepared
This
"Platform over the Ballast" was shown in the contemporary drawings
"in green ink" available at the NMM
Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board and decoration and name on stern counter, sheer lines with inboard detail modifications proposed in green ink, longitudinal half-breadth, and midship section showing the clinker framing, for 'Coureur' (1778), a captured French lugger, as modified to an 8-gun Schooner. Signed by John Henslow [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1775-1784; later Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806].
Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the upper deck, and fore and aft platforms, with proposed modifications in green, for 'Coureur' (1778), a captured French lugger, as modified to an 8-gun Schooner. Signed by John Henslow [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1775-1784; later Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806].
and here some excerpts showing the "box"
from Wikipedia:
- HMS Coureur (1778) was a French lugger that Jacques and Daniel Denys built at Dunkirk and launched on 8 May 1776.[1] Alert, under the command of Lieutenant William George Fairfax, engaged and captured her on 17 June 1778, in advance of the declaration of war. In the engagement Coureur, under the command of Enseigne de Rosily, had five men killed and seven wounded out of her crew of 50. Alert had four men wounded, two mortally.[2] The British took Coureur into the Royal Navy under her existing name. She was under the command of Lieutenant Christopher Major on 21 June 1780 when two American privateers, the Fortune and the Griffin, captured her outside Bonavista Bay after an action that cost her three men killed and four wounded.[3] The Americans put Major and 30 of his men aboard Griffin, which fell prey the next day to Fairy.[4]
en.wikipedia.org
This means for the purist:
If you want to build and show the
HMS COUREUR (captured 1778) you should install the Platform over the Ballast
If you want to build the french version of the
Le COUREUR (launched 1776) before the capture, than there was this platform not installed
Here you can see also the difference
HMS COUREUR like Tom build with the CAF test build
or the french version of Le Coureur shown in this 3D-animation without the "box or platform - here the stowage is laying directly on the inner planking, without the ballast stones
