Carronade
Captain
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2011
- Location
- Pennsylvania
Decorative as they were, the protruding quarter galleries served as the captain's and officers' toilet facilities.
Decorative as they were, the protruding quarter galleries served as the captain's and officers' toilet facilities.
I'm glad you like it! It's the only photo of Cumberland I've seen myself. One detail I like about it (and there are so many) is it shows Cumberland has quarter galleries. Her plans as a razee don't show them and probably because of that, most of the paintings I've seen of her leave them off. Examples include:View attachment 157420 View attachment 157421
In the Civil War era, the USN painted over most decoration and molding, including both the bow and the quarter gallery windows. Sometimes they even completely removed the fake window molding, leaving the quarter gallery smooth. There was one real small window, usually the top half of the fake center window on the gallery. In this photograph of the similarly-razeed USS Macedonian, you can really see this because of the quarter gallery catching the light. You can make out a similar window on Cumberland in the photograph I linked earlier.
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I think it's a tug
Crazy good stuff, thank you again! Love to know whose idea it was to just paint over those things. Did not know that, either, that they'd painted over so much. Provides less target or just uniformity?
Had no idea any photo of Cumberland existed- appreciate you bringing it here!