LeBoiteux Posted October 21, 2017 Share Posted October 21, 2017 (edited) La Palme (translation : 'The palm Leaf' or 'The Laurels') French 4-pdr Corvette 12 guns 1744 Armament (historical and in-game suggestion) : 12 x 4-pdr Broadside weight = 24 pds (= Lynx) Alternatives dimensions (pieds du Roi) : Sources : Boudriot p. 19 + plan above Length between perpendiculars : 85' 5" Breadth overall to outside of frame : 22' 8" Depth in hold from top of the keel to the line of the deck at the middle line : 10' 6" Sources : Boudriot p. 16, SH 321 or 324 Length between perpendiculars : 85' Breadth overall to outside of frame : 22' 6" Depth in hold from top of the keel to the line of the deck at the middle line : 10' 4" Source : threedecks.org Length of Gundeck : 84' 0" Length of Keel : 76'0" Breadth : 22'0" Depth in hold : 9' 0" Burthen : 120 ton Built at Brest (France) by Joseph-Louis Ollivier at the age of... 15. Building features : hull with quite a flat bottom and substantial tumblehome, no forecastle, upper part of the hull is low above the waterline, displacement : 265 tx, her general design is modern for its time. Drawing of the naval sculpture by Caffieri : French Archives, D1 68, f°2, cl. 7289 Sources : Boudriot, Historique de la corvette, La Créole, 1993, p. 16-19. Plans (French Archives) : SH 324, p. 189 ; 2G2 n° 204 ('La Palme, 4-pdr Corvette carrying 10 guns, c. 1744, unsigned') https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=15577 Sister ships : L'Anémone and L'Amarante, 1747 2 hours ago, Malachi said: La Palme was in the West Indies (this ship was Suffren´s - then aged 16 - first command, by the way). Thx to @Sella22 ! Edited October 23, 2017 by LeBoiteux 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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