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Ahoy,
Since the settlement of Port Brique in 1801, there has been a wide variety of
vessels calling it home. But no two deckers. Until now.
Although wide and ungainly, brig-rigged L’Administrateur Rouge packs a
broadside seldom matched, while her ample cabins make her a suitable alternative
to the aging Misérable as the flagship of the French Colony.
Reportedly, an experimental Dutch vessel, captured in the Straits de Torres in
December 1806, the L’Administrateur Rouge now under the command of the
colony’s second best captain, patrols the waters around Port Brique
administering the law of revolutionary France (hence L’Administrateur Rouge).
I have toyed with the idea of building a two decker for a while, but haven’t had
the time, or the willingness to sacrifice on of my larger vessels for the hull.
Over Christmas, I got the old brig Madame Thenardier out of storage, intending
to rebuild her as a new brig, but I decided instead to use the Madame’s hull
to experiment with some ideas I’d had for building a two decker, and
particularly building a double gallery. The result is the L’Administrateur
Rouge.
The L’Administrateur is not by any means a serious vessel, but it has allowed
me to toy with cross sections appropriate for a two decker. The deck spacing
works out quite well, and while the join of the angled gallery to the cabin
betrays my lack of red inverse tall slopes somewhat, I think it works reasonably
well.
The rig is straight from the old Madame, but with extra mast sections added.
(What were once the mainmasts are now the topmasts (with new fighting tops
added), what were once the courses are now the tops’ls and so on). The bowsprit
is new, and uses a 4+ pirates mast section along with a column of 2x2 round
bricks, to achieve a reasonable length.
Looking at the L’Administrateur, I can imagine it being two or three hull
sections longer, with the current foremast becoming the main, the mizzen where
the mainmast is now, and a foremast added. Maintaining the current gun spacing,
means that each extra hull section would yield eight extra guns… this would
mean that a four centre section version of the L’Administrateur would be a 40
gun ship!
More pics on brickshelf.
Any feedback would be most welcome.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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