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MEERMIN Dutch wijdschip 1/44

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The depth markings:

This evening I found some time to work my way through @Maarten 's important reconstruction and stopped by the scale for the draught differing from place to place:
Stem - Starboard:
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Stem - Port:
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Stern - Starboard:
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Stern - Port:
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Herr the wreck as a source:
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Would these method also be used on Wijdschips' stem&stern also?

And I do start the measurement from the keels underside, right?
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II.
Stem to keel join
Certainly there is my question is the Fluyte as much bigger the right example to follow?
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Thank you very much,
Greetings from the Berlin Card Yard,
Chris
 
Hi Chris.

G.C.Dik states in his book De 7 Provinciën, a ship larger than a Fluyte, that the draft (draft, so measured from the underside of the keel) are on the stem marked on the starboard side and on the sternbeam on the port side. The markings on those sides are in the roman numerals, tilted version with dots. The 9 not being IX but V….(4 dots).

On the wreck of the Samuel the other side is marked with the normal roman numerals.

I do not know if all ships in that period were marked like that but I would assume so.
 
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