General plans:
1768 Thames
wherry, barge, hoy, etc. Draughts from Chapman's "Architectura Navalis
- Plate 50
1800 stumpy plan/elevation
1825/50 Thames barges(topsail)
1840 Topsail Plan/elevation
1840/90 (Swimhead plans/elevation)
1860 Thames barges
1870-1895
1895 Thames barges
1895 Channel barge
1922 Auxiliary ketch barge
1925 Auxiliary ketch barge
"A Simple Thames Sailing Barge"
Mulie rigged Channel barge
Sailing
BARGE-YACHT
Typical Thames barge about 75' long, 15'
beam, drawing 6' loaded 55 gross tons
Sources:
"Barges" by John Leather 1984
"The Big Barges" by Hervey Benham & Roger
Finch 1983.
Brown Son and Ferguson Ltd
"The CHATHAM Directory of Inshore Craft"
ed Basil Greenhill and Julian Mannering.
David
MacGregor Plans
(Model Dockyard)
David Metcalfe
National
Maritime Museum
NEXUS/MAP
"Model Boat" Magazine
Model Maker Plans Service
Planaship
Science Museum
"Spritsail Barges of the Thames and Medway"
by Edgar J. March
T.B.S.C.
Traplet Publications plans services
Plans have been available of the CAMBRIA and WOLSEY, drawn by the late
L.E.Zouch.
I can't find out anything about whether they are still available from
any source.
Can anybody shed any light on these plans?
Do
you know of any other barge plans that are not included here? |
