working ships -> Water Vessels + Tank Vessels (contemp drawings)

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Interesting working ships and vessels

42ft Water Vessel (1821) for Trincomalee​

Scale: 1:24 and 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, longitudinal half-breadth, half-breadth deck plan, half section, and profile with framing elevation and full sail plan for a two-masted forty-three foot water vessel for Trincomalee, Celon.

Signed by Captain Clotworthy Upton [Captain seniority, 29 April 1802; Resident Commissioner, Naval Yard, Trincomalee].

42ft Water Vessel (1821) for Trincomalee | Royal Museums Greenwich

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60ft Water Tank Vessel (1804)​

Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, basic profile, and longitudinal half-breadth for a three-masted, cedar-built, copper-fastened, sixty foot water carrier for the Jamaica Station, as designed by Captain Andrew Fitzherbert Evans (seniority: 15 April 1798) under the auspices and direction of Rear Admiral Sor John Duckworth. Built at Bermuda under the inspection of Messers Goodrich & Sheldon, Merchants.

60ft Water Tank Vessel (1804) | Royal Museums Greenwich

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80ft Water Vessel (1796)​

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a two-masted 80ft water vessel designed by Sir Samuel Bentham, and built at Tor Point near Plymouth.

Signed by Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham [Inspector of Naval Works, 1796-1806].

80ft Water Vessel (1796) | Royal Museums Greenwich

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64ft Water Carrier (1806)​

Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, modified sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, and midship section proposed [and approved] for a sixty-four foot water carrier (1806).

Signed by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813], and Henry Peake [Surveyor of the Navy, 1806-1822].

64ft Water Carrier (1806) | Royal Museums Greenwich

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Most detailed drawings are existing about the Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837)

Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and midship framing, and longitudinal half-breadth for Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837), a two-masted Water Carrier built at Chatham Dockyard for service in Malta.


Scale: 1:24. A plan showing the midship section for Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837), a two-masted Water Carrier built for service in Malta.


Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and platforms and flats, for Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837), a two-masted Water Carrier built for service in Malta.
Signed by William Stone [Master Shipwright, Chatham Dockyard, 1830-1839]


Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the deck with after platform detail for Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837), a two-masted Water Carrier built at Chatham Dockyard for service in Malta.



Scale: 1:96. A plan showing the sail profile with mast and spar dimensions, and sail area, for Tank Vessel No. 1 (1837), a two-masted Water Carrier built for service in Malta.

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'Coronation' (1831)​

Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with half stern board outline, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Coronation' (1831), a fifty-seven foot tank vessel, as taken off in July 1841.
Signed: T. F. Hawkes [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1837-1843].

'Coronation' (1831) | Royal Museums Greenwich

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'Coronation' (1831)​

Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the deck and tanks of the 'Coronation' (1831), a fifty-seven foot tank vessel, as taken off in July 1841.
Signed: T. F. Hawkes [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1837-1843].

'Coronation' (1831) | Royal Museums Greenwich

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there are several additional drawings of water tank vessels existing, but unfortunately not uploaded, f.e.

Unnamed proposed H.M. water tank vessel​

Scale 1:48. A printed copy of a plan showing the inboard profile, sections, a plan of the wheelhouse, the upper and forecastle decks, as designed, for a unnamed H.M. water tank vessel. The title of the plan is '1939 Programme HM Water Tank Vessel'. The plan is torn in various places.

Unnamed tank vessel for Malta Dockyard | Royal Museums Greenwich

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[Roger Pellett]

These working vessels are interesting and would make great models. As they are relatively small vessels they could be modeled at a large scale showing a high level of detail.

While not glamorous as the ships of the line and frigates with their rows of cannon, these working craft were essential to keeping the “wooden walls” sailing, and continue to be essential to blue water navies down to the present day.

Roger

 

[Kurt Konrath]

Had not ever thought of need for carrying fresh water on a wooden ship!

but as Roger stated they were indeed needed for large fleets out at sea.