Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Ship!

Here's a map of the different decks of the ship! I will update shortly with what she's holding and where the damage is, but here's a picture to give you a better picture.



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This caravel is a typical example of the type, although the internal arrangement can vary greatly from ship to ship. Its notable features include:
  1. Quarterdeck: The quarterdeck is a raised, open deck at the stern. The ship’s wheel is here, along with a small davit for a ship’s boat.
  2. Foc’s’le Deck: This is a raised, open deck atop the fore-castle. The caravel mounts a ballista here; the weapon can’t fire straight ahead because of the foremast. On the starboard side is the hawsepipe and tackle for the ship’s anchor.
  3. Master’s Cabin: The largest and most comfortable cabin on the ship is still quite cramped by most standards.
  4. Wardroom: The captain, officers, and passengers take their meals here. This room also serves as a drawing room or parlor for the officers and passengers.
  5. Main Deck: This open deck features a catapult and two large companionways that descend to the lower deck. The catapult can only be fired to the broadside; it can’t train forward or aft (a typical problem with large weapons mounted on small, cluttered ships). The companionways serve as both stairways (ladders, in nautical parlance) and cargo hatches. Chicken coops and pens for goats, lambs, or other small livestock often take up any available space left on the deck.
  6. Forecastle: Most of the ship’s crew sleeps here, although in good weather many crewmembers prefer to sleep on the open decks. The forecastle holds a dozen cramped bunks.
  7. Galley: The ship’s galley is in the forward part of the lower deck. It has a small stove and shelving for all kinds of foodstuffs. The ship’s cook and his assistant(s) sleep here.
  8. Chain Locker: The ship’s anchor chain is stored here. It passes through the hawsepipe in the forecastle up to the foc’s’le deck.
  9. Lower Deck: This space serves as the first of the caravel’s cargo holds, as well as the crew’s mess deck. Crewmembers take their meals sitting on whatever cargo is convenient. If the ship is heavily laden, this deck might be covered to within a foot of the overhead, leaving only a single fore-and-aft passage between the crates, casks, and bundles.
  10. Officer’s Cabins: These tiny cabins are the private rooms of the ship’s officers. Paying passengers usually bump an officer from his or her cabin to the forecastle.
  11. Ship’s Office: All the ship’s paperwork is kept here, including cargo manifests, pay records, and the ship’s paychest (usually in a sturdy, locked chest).
  12. Sail Locker: Spare sails, canvas, and sewing gear is stored here, as well as plenty of lines, hawsers, firewood, and heavy tools.
  13. Lower Hold: Most of the ship’s cargo is stowed here, as well as provisions (including as many casks of fresh water as will fit). Beneath this lower hold lies a small crawlspace where heavy ballast stones help to stabilize the ship.

6 comments:

  1. Who is doing quartermaster duties? There are a lot of foodstuffs to buy...

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  2. You could also rearrange things, if you'd like. There's plenty of work to be done. Might as well re-purpose some areas, if you want to.

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  3. http://books.google.com/books?id=2yYePdlqcAkC&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=sleeping+in+a+man-of-war&source=bl&ots=vky3mmmzLL&sig=vmJy8imGOe7cukXxAjhhk0sZxxw&hl=en&ei=yDlZS4S6Go74sgOqxOGPAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=sleeping%20in%20a%20man-of-war&f=false

    check out chapter twenty: they only got eighteen inches for their hammock!

    Essentially we could hang them to the beams, or the wall joints, or to the walls with bolts or hooks. Officer's cabins usually came with hammocks or desks that turned over and became beds. Needless to say they were uncomfortable.

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  4. Whittaker, I can't believe you put 5 women in the Captain's cabin. It's tiny. Also, Darvin would like the cabin across from the office, which is now the de facto Captain's cabin.

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  5. I think we are going to tear down the wall between it and the conference room and make it larger.

    This ship has more cabin/bunk space than I expected.

    Also, not everyone is going to be sleeping at the same time - there will be two watches (or we could do three), to keep everything manned at night and such and so the space won't be nearly as much as an issue.

    In a somewhat related note - have y'all seen Master and Commander? Good movie along this theme.

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  6. A few hours after the other women started moving into the master's cabin with Nym, she wakes up to chatting and feels quite crowded by the influx of people into such a small room. She quietly collects her things and slinks down to one of the empty officer's cabins. After re-setting up her area, she brings Nesme onto the main deck and ties her off before going down to her newly claimed cabin to sleep.

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