The way to recover a Foundered Ship with many Barks or Wherryes.
327[Figure 327]
which means in every two Ships to a Diviſion (which in all make
four Ships) there muſt be ſeven Orders of Beams, and in three Ships
to a Squadron, there muſt be ten Orders of Beams, and in four
Ships to a Squadron thirteen; and thus proceeding forwards to a
greater number of Ships in a Squadron. And having underſtood the
way of coupling many Barks or Wherryes in Squadrons; as alſo the
manner how to joyn or faſten them to each other, and with how
many Orders of Beams; you are to proceed in the reſt, as in the
precedent Explanations hath been demonſtrated in ſhowle bottoms,
but the directions how to manage this affair in deep places, ſhall be
declared in the ſeventh Explanation.
327[Figure 327]which means in every two Ships to a Diviſion (which in all make
four Ships) there muſt be ſeven Orders of Beams, and in three Ships
to a Squadron, there muſt be ten Orders of Beams, and in four
Ships to a Squadron thirteen; and thus proceeding forwards to a
greater number of Ships in a Squadron. And having underſtood the
way of coupling many Barks or Wherryes in Squadrons; as alſo the
manner how to joyn or faſten them to each other, and with how
many Orders of Beams; you are to proceed in the reſt, as in the
precedent Explanations hath been demonſtrated in ſhowle bottoms,
but the directions how to manage this affair in deep places, ſhall be
declared in the ſeventh Explanation.
EXPLANATION V.
To remove this inconvenience of taking Ships or other Veſſels;
and of ſtanding to lighten them of their Guns & lading, and of
ſtopping their Loop-holes; you may inſuch a misfortune cauſe
to be made two great Veſſels, almoſt in form of ^{*} Cheſts without
vers, the length of each to be equal to the Hull of a middle rate Ship,
and the breadth equall to that of the ſame Ship at the Main-maſt,
and the height alſo the ſame with that of the Ship in the Bow, ſo
that each of theſe Plat forms or Cheſts, ſhall hold much more than
a common Ship, and thus both will contain more than the double
burden of ſuch a Ship. And for the making of theſe Veſſels, you
muſt firſt make the Models in Carvel-manner of thick and ſtrong
Timber, with their Eutertaces, Tranſomes and Knees, to hold their
ſides and ends together: and this done, ſpike down to them certain
and of ſtanding to lighten them of their Guns & lading, and of
ſtopping their Loop-holes; you may inſuch a misfortune cauſe
to be made two great Veſſels, almoſt in form of ^{*} Cheſts without
vers, the length of each to be equal to the Hull of a middle rate Ship,
and the breadth equall to that of the ſame Ship at the Main-maſt,
and the height alſo the ſame with that of the Ship in the Bow, ſo
that each of theſe Plat forms or Cheſts, ſhall hold much more than
a common Ship, and thus both will contain more than the double
burden of ſuch a Ship. And for the making of theſe Veſſels, you
muſt firſt make the Models in Carvel-manner of thick and ſtrong
Timber, with their Eutertaces, Tranſomes and Knees, to hold their
ſides and ends together: and this done, ſpike down to them certain