Margin Plank

[David50]

How wide should I make a margin plank for the HMS Alert model by Vanguard?

 

[AllanKP69]

From Peter Goodwin's The Construction and Fitting of the English Man of War, page 60:

The margin plank was the same thickness as the deck plank, but one and a half times as wide.

Just as an FYI, according to the same book, page 50, the breadth of the waterways for the lower gun deck was 3/4 the depth of the keel and 2/3 the depth of the keel on the other decks. That was a new one for me

Allan

 

[David50]

Thanks for that info

 

[iutar]

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