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At the Naval Yard the station lines were on the frames case in point the OHIO the red lines are the station lines the blue lines are 3 frames between each station line. bow and stern the red station lines are every other frame

Room and space is 33". If it is accepted that the hull was built using all bends and zero space then each frame timber would be 16.5" sided. Steel: 74 midship sided 16" - if Steel was followed and Joshua Humphreys Notebook had data from either Steel, Shipbuilders Repository, or the Establishments themselves, there would be a 1" space between each bend. The French in the 18thC. went thru fads and cycles about every 20 years it seems, but they kept coming back to 2/3 room (bend) 1/3 space. I believe that by the 19thC. they had pretty much settled on this pattern. My reading indicates that the major English complaint against enrolling French and American captures was that their scantllings were too light. Two paired 11" frames and a 11" space would certainly provoke that response.
So, if the proposition that US builders favored the French practice over the English then this is what Ohio framing would look like midship: