CSS Bombshell

[corn-fed-erate]

In the newspaper sketch of " the albemarle in action may 5, 1864" the Bombshell is shown to the far right. By the way it is drawn can anyone say whether the bow of the ship is to the left or the right?

 

[AndyHall]

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Bow to the left.

 

[corn-fed-erate]

Thanks Andy.

 

[corn-fed-erate]

Is the first tall structure from left the smoke stack? What is the structure with the slanted roof? Where would the bridge / pilot house be?

 

[AndyHall]

Maybe something like this:

The big, dark structure abaft the sidewheels is in the right place for a walking beam, but it's oddly drawn. There's no bridge or wheelhouse visible, but that would commonly be incorporated at the front end of the cabin, maybe raised slightly. Unfortunately, that one image doesn't provide more than a silhouette, and how accurate even that is, is open to question.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

I was reading yesterday about some structures erected on Patrick Henry to try to protect the walking beam... might there have been something of that sort on Bombshell?

 

[corn-fed-erate]

Sketch helps a lot. Many thanks for the help.

 

[AndyHall]

I was reading yesterday about some structures erected on Patrick Henry to try to protect the walking beam... might there have been something of that sort on Bombshell?

Excellent suggestion.

 

[corn-fed-erate]

Granted it is a very tiny sketch, only there to add to the larger action in the center of the picture. But, it does look like a protective shield and roof for weather. It does make good country boy common sense that such a vital part of a ships mobility be protected. My first shot would be at the exposed walking beam machinery!

 

[corn-fed-erate]

Excellent suggestion.el

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Love the second sketch. My 9 year old wants to make a "folk model" of it next. He is just finishing his CSS Halifax. We used info that yall provided in the past and crossed it with Teaser. After we finish Bombshell we will get the Cotton Plant.

 

[AndyHall]

My 9 year old wants to make a "folk model" of it next.

Pictures, or it didn't happen!

 

[corn-fed-erate]

So far I am not smart enough to get them up here.

 

[corn-fed-erate]

 

[AndyHall]

That's more like it!

 

[corn-fed-erate]

That's more like it!

My 9 year old had to help with the picture.

 

[ole]

My 9 year old had to help with the picture.

Wish I had a 9 year old to help with the technical details.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Granted it is a very tiny sketch, only there to add to the larger action in the center of the picture. But, it does look like a protective shield and roof for weather. It does make good country boy common sense that such a vital part of a ships mobility be protected. My first shot would be at the exposed walking beam machinery!

Mind you, the other (quite likely) possibility is that the rough sketch made that was the basis for the later image may have only had a rough outline of Bombshell; maybe the walking beam structure got lost in the details. (The artist working on the finished product may not have been the one who made the sketch, for instance, so there may be a level of (mis)interpretation in there.)

 

[rebelatsea]

Maybe something like this:

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The big, dark structure abaft the sidewheels is in the right place for a walking beam, but it's oddly drawn. There's no bridge or wheelhouse visible, but that would commonly be incorporated at the front end of the cabin, maybe raised slightly. Unfortunately, that one image doesn't provide more than a silhouette, and how accurate even that is, is open to question.

Andy I think that's near spot on.

 

[rebelatsea]

I was reading yesterday about some structures erected on Patrick Henry to try to protect the walking beam... might there have been something of that sort on Bombshell?

I'm interested ,tell me more, the illustrations i have of her as a gunboat and as the schoolship don't show that.

 

[rebelatsea]

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Love it ,well done.