akd Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 L'Éclair was an 18- / 22-gun French barque latine built in Toulon and taken by HMS Leda in the Mediterranean, becoming the ship-sloop HMS Eclair. Plans below were taken prior to her being hulked in 1797. If anyone has an illustration of what her barque latine rig might have looked like, please post. with poop deck without poop deck http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/84064.html Dimensions: 98' x 27' x 12' 230 tons Crew: 166 Armament: QD: 6x 12pdr carronades (in British service) Upper deck: 18x 6pdr gun A half-model of a similar barque latine from Toulon, L’Hirondelle (1743?), can be found in the musee nationale de la Marine, Paris: https://flic.kr/p/f5eBuZ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vernon Merrill Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Possibly? Primitive, but.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 The mast placement looks appropriate for a square rigger. Maybe she just had a lateen sail on the mizzen, possibly a large on like a bilander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idle Champion Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 This is an 18th-century polacca rig and not identified as a barque latine rig, but it indicates another style in which a three-masted 18th-century ship might carry a lateen sail apart from a lateen mizzen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cragger Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Given the terminology of a barque being a three or more masted vessel with a fore and main mast that is ship rigged and a mizzen that is fore and aft coupled with the 'latine' which is a triangular sail reference as lateen rigged in English I would imagine it to be squared rigged on the fore and main and a large lateen sail on the mizzen. Failing to find any image of any decent quality one can visual this by looking at the Renomee and removing the square sails from the mizzen over the lateen and the ship either having a shorter mizzen, a larger more heavily raked lateen or possibly even a top lateen like older carracks. The advantages of such a rig is it would take less crew to manage then a gaff and square sails. Though the disadvantage would be that a lateen rig always has a direction where the wind pushes the sail into the mast causing interference and poor efficiency. The Bella Poule model in game still has the lateen yard but rigged with a lugger sail which wouldn't have such interference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Belle Poule doesn't have a lugsail mizzen. It's a lateen yard, which has (essentially) a loose-footed gaff on it. The term barque is highly ambiguous in the 1700s, and for non-English speaking countries that goes double. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cragger Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 (edited) Belle Poule doesn't have a lugsail mizzen. It's a lateen yard, which has (essentially) a loose-footed gaff on it. The term barque is highly ambiguous in the 1700s, and for non-English speaking countries that goes double. This is true, I'd forgotten that a lug sail is like a lateen in that the yard and sail is unevenly bisected by the mast but is four cornered instead of three. Barque definitely is not an exceptionaly well defined before the 1800s. I believe at one point in 1700s in Great Britain it simply referred to a particular hull lines and length to beam ratio. Still given the mast positions and angles I still believe this ship was fore and main square sail rigged and the latine references a completely lateen rigged mizzen like most fluyts were. Edited July 16, 2016 by Cragger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idle Champion Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Barque definitely is not an exceptionaly well defined before the 1800s. Yeah - it may be well defined today, but it used to just refer to a three-masted vessel that wasn't fully ship-rigged. A recurring definition referred to a ship that carried only one sail on the mizzen, but it was largely a broad category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idle Champion Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 (edited) http://www.bateaux-du-leman.ch/?p=1448 http://www.bateaux-du-leman.ch/?page_id=519 http://www.bateaux-du-leman.ch/?page_id=528 http://www.bateaux-du-leman.ch/?page_id=524 Present-day ships, one a replica of an 1828 ship, one a replica of an 1896 ship, and two-masted, but dubbed as barques latines in the source and the style is described as going back to the 16th century., One pic contrasts the barques latines with a gaff-sail rig dubbed as a galere/ sail galley. Single lateen sail on each mast, single jib headsail, and these two-masted ones have the mainmast near the centre of the vessel and the foremast very far forward but still short of the bow - Vernon Merrill's three-master looks the goods, though the second headsail is different. Edited July 30, 2016 by Idle Champion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cragger Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 I have I think come across a possibility. I was doing some unrelated reading and came across the French 'Grande Tartane' And it got me to thinking. A barquentine is a three masted vessel with the foremast ship rigged and the main and mizzen fore and aft, usually gaff rigged. What if the barque latine (barquelatine) was like a later barquentine but the main and mizzen where rigged like the Tartane with lateen instead of gaff rigged. Lateen (Latine) rigging was very popular for French mediterranean vessels it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niagara_1812 Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 This is a very interesting ship, It would be nice to see more of a variety of unique ships in the game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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