Ej, please don't leave this thread, I value your input greatly
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thanks for the list... it's a difficult thing to confirm. Regarding the Admirals Barge, from what I understand it should have been there, I read something about the barge being present when the Admiral was aboard and that when not for this era it would have been replaced with a 35ft FMB.
The mix-up over 16ft sailing dingy's/FMB seems to be shared among many sources....John Roberts clearly shows a 16ft motor dingy on the outboard starboard side between the forward pompom and forward 4" mount. This is confirmed by the photo that EJ kindly shared on the previous page. There is also another photo in Bruce Taylor's book showing the port side which has a 16ft sailing dingy in the cradle, I believe both photos are 1941, how close to her sinking I'm not sure?
I still need to understand the boats though, they aren't clear in my head yet but then I haven't devoted enough time to this yet. It's only become more pressing now as I plan to use the fabulous 3D printed boats by Micromaster and wish to place the order when they reopen end of this month. I'm not worried if I get some of the boats wrong, I can always get the proper ones later, it will be some time yet before I am fitting the ship's boats.
EJ's blog on ships boats is a god send for details about each boat. My biggest stumbling block just now is working out which boats are paired, I know (or think I know) some details but am unsure as to which boat was on the bottom of the rear pair. The drawings seem to suggest a large boat similar in size to the 42 and 45ft boats but none of the lists show anything that large. I'm guessing that one of the 32 cutters could be one of the upper boat pairs with the 30 gig being the other. I say this as it looks like the 3 25ft FMB were placed on either side of the funnels (1 starboard and 2 port) but some drawings show differently?
As you can see I'm still very confused...
cheers
Pete