THE ANCIENT METHODS OF DESIGNING HULLS

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• Fabrica di Galere Vol. 1 , The Venetian version of the ancient method of design appears more or less consistently in many sources, the most important being: MS Magliabechiano D7 XIX in the Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence, known as, a copy of the 1410 original; British Museum Cotton MS Titus A 26 by Zorzi Trombetta da Modon, 1445; MS Ital, C1. IV, cd 26 Pre Teodoro di Nicolo, in the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, 1550; MS Archivio di Stato Veneto, Archivio Pinelli, Busta 2 Misure di Vascelli, anon. Proto all'Arsenale di Venezia, 1546; MS Archivio di Stato Veneto, Navilii sotili (that is lateen sails), Memorie antiche, Vol. (I am indebted to Mr Mauro Bondioli for this latter manuscript and I should like to thank him for this and for his many illuminating insights into the matter on which he is the greatest authority I know); MS Archivio di Stato Veneto, Arsenale, Busta 1 by Baldassar Drachio, 1599; Brit. Museum Add. MS 38,655 Architettura Navale, by Stefano de Zuane, 1686; the collection Ragioni antique spettanti alle arti del mare, Nat. Mar. Museum, Greenwich, MS NVT 19, edited by Giorgetta Bonfiglio Dosio, was recently published with studies by P. Van der Merwe, A. Chiggiato and D. Proctor (Venice, 1987). A. Chiggiato's contribution specifically deals with the ancient method of design
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• The clearest and most detailed description of the ‘classic’ version of the method is to be found in Drachio.
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• See e.g. the illustration of the Zorzi di Trombetta MS fo. 46 or Pre Teodoro fo. 26 ff.
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• Mauro Bondioli has observed in many cases a similarity between the curve of part of the stem with that of the main frame.
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• Length of keel 21 (Venetian) paces, curve of keel forward 12 (Ven.) inches, aft 16. Curves of extremities of keel 6 inches high 10 (Ven.) feet long; aft 10 inches high, 12 feet long. Rake of stem 14 feet, of sternpost 11. Height of stem 10 feet, 12 inches, height of sternpost 13 feet 10 inches, and depth in hold 8 feet 10 inches. (1 Venetian pace—1.739 m.; 1 Venetian foot = 34.8 cm.; 1 Venetian inch = 2.17 cm.
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• Width of floor, 11 feet 3 inches, width at 3 feet above keel 17 feet 13 inches, at 6 feet above keel 20 feet 6 inches, at deck level 21 feet 8 inches.
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• The frames shaped by means of the partison procedure shall be 42 forward, 42 aft and 4 in the middle. From the last moulded frame to the extremity of the ship, 20 feet forward, 26 aft. Narrowing of floors 42 inches forward, 50 aft. The raising of the floors begins at frame no. 15 forward as well as aft. Height of raising at the tail frame (last moulded frame) 12 inches forward, 14 aft. Widening of futtocks 16 inches forward, 12 aft. Haleing down of futtocks 24 inches forward as well as aft.
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• Treatise 61 – 9 . On the system described in the c. 1620–25, see Richard Barker's article in Carvel Construction Techniques, Oxbow Monograph 12 (1991), pp. Barker also includes here the contemporary MSS, Harriot (BL Add. 6788). Scott (Scott Collection, RINA 798), and the Cambridge University Library MS (Add. 4005, part 12). The Harriot MS has been partially published and commented in 500 years of nautical science, 1400–1900, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, by Jon Pepper, who reconstructed the diagrams for the shape of the main frame, etc., on the basis of very difficult to understand instructions given in the text
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