georgew
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Oct 1, 2010
- Location
- southern california
Take a good look at this painting. Note the linear line extending from the crewman forward in the blue shirt aft above the waterline to about where the man in the red shirt is sitting. This looks like a wale to me and I think the drawing depicts the application of iron curved strips from the cuddy to the wale. If you go from the bow of the boat roped to the TB straight up you see what appears to be another curved section of iron up on the dock. Because of the width of the strips it looks like boiler iron. I don't think RR strap iron came this wide.I'll take a little more time later, but I'd like to note that I have often wondered myself if this could in fact be the original David. Its details are extremely reminiscent of Chapman's painting, and while it's not impossible that it could be a sister ship, these things weren't exactly turned out on an assembly line; so "sisters" weren't necessarily identical...
(Courtesy of one of your earlier posts):
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