81542 wrote:
The Admiralty Manual of Seamanship Vol 1 (1937) has a table listing the particulars of fittings etc for steam and motor boats between pages 284 and 285. There are no drawings in the book. This seems to lay down details of most of the boats that will be the subject of your thread. However, it does not give details of the service's pulling boats.
Indeed it does, and all sailing boats are on pages 280-281; I intend to put scans in the main page on the blog as well. (I used these pages as a general layout for the page, actually). I wonder if the 1943 version of the manual contains an updated table? This volume is usually a bit more expensive; I only have the 1937 version..
81542 wrote:
The collection of Norman Ough's boat drawings including his other work, are held by Bristol University as part of the SS GREAT BRITAIN Trust, which I presume owns the copyright. The drawings of Ough origin are, with those of other draftsmen, part of the David McGregor collection. These have been catalogued (it is a big list) and details can be found on-line (apologies to all, I don't have details of the link). Images are available for purchase on a CD.
The plans are list here:
https://www.ssgreatbritain.org/brunel-institute/collections. They have an extensive collection of plans, I did order a few Ough drawings from them earlier. Quite efficient and affordable, and nowadays also via download (My PC doesn't have a DVD reader anymore.). I have copies of the gig and 42ft sailing launch (not via ssgreatbritian, simple Xeroxes). I can shoot them an e-mail and ask. They also have number of Lambert drawings.
81542 wrote:
Concerning the images in your last post: the 45ft motor launch shown is of the "light" type which came into service circa 1935. It replaced the 45ft motor launch with auxiliary motor that had been in service for some years previously but was still being carried by the "Revenge" class battleships. The latter boat is that illustrated in your blog embarking Royal Marines. Please do not delete that as it serves to illustrate the earlier boat of which there are few good images and from what past research revealed to me, NO drawings available in the National Maritime Museum (NMM). It is known, however that the NMM does have a copy of the drawing of the later boat.
Thank you, that is a great addition. HMS Hood carried one 42ft and one 45 ft barge. I have not found any material on the 42ft sailing barge with the auxiliary motor... The data sheet of the 45 ft motor barge (also on the blog page) says
"This design was developed in 1935 to replace the existing 45ft motor launch; the new design to be a lighter craft to be carried in reconstructed capital ships and to be within the lifting capacity of the aircraft cranes."This suggest that the type aboard HMS Hood is the pre-1935 version, i.e., the version she received in 1920.