Monograph on HM Post Ship Perseus

[Thukydides]

Attached is the latest draft of my monograph I am writing to document my research on HM Post Ship Perseus. This research is the companion to the model I am building and a build log can be found here. For those who were following along with my Perseus log prior to the MSW crash, all of the research I had previously document along with detailed citations can be found in this latest draft.

New in this version:

• Additional sections on the bollard timbers and armament
• Updated transcriptions for the text of the sphinx class plans correcting numerous errors and omissions
• A number of additional potential contemporary depictions of sphinx class ships
• Numerous fixes and corrections to errors

Please let me know if you have any questions or corrections.

 

[Y.T.]

Thank you for posting this. A huge amount of work had been done here.

 

[AllanKP69]

HM Post Ship Perseus

And now another ship I would love to build considering you did all the research and saved hundreds of hours of work. Maybe one day.....
Thanks for posting this Daniel!!!!!
Allan

 

[RichardG]

What a fascinating document. Being a beginner with a keen interest in such things I will take a very long look at your work.

 

[AnobiumPunctatum]

Thank you very much for sharing your work.

 

[Thukydides]

And now another ship I would love to build considering you did all the research and saved hundreds of hours of work. Maybe one day.....
Thanks for posting this Daniel!!!!!
Allan

Not all the research, much more to come. It is a bit of a patchwork at the moment and I have a massive backlog of primary sources still to transcribe.

I would certainly be interested in your thoughts, particularly on the knee of the head section.

 

[AllanKP69]

I just read the section on the knee of the head. This in itself is the most thorough examination of this part of the ship that I recall seeing. I doubt that there were two ships exactly the same so it might be anybody's guess as to the details for Perseus or her sisters. In the end, no one can say whatever you choose for that era is wrong. A few that come to mind that SEEM to be somewhat common are below. The second is from Goodwin. The last one is by David Antscherl in volume I, page 137 of The Fully Framed Model. He states that The knee of the head varied, depending on the timber at hand, but there were several principal pieces.
Allan