"Charleston floating battery" Topic
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14 Feb 2015 4:56 p.m. PST by Editor in Chief Bill
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jaxenro | 14 Feb 2015 4:32 p.m. PST |
Looking for as detailed plans, descriptions, etc. of the Charleston floating battery as I can get. I have a scale 42 pounder and carriage on order and want to make a section of this to mount it in |
hocklermp5 | 15 Feb 2015 8:30 a.m. PST |
If memory serves there are plans and illustrations of the floating battery in "Battles And Leaders Of The Civil War" Vol. 1 |
jaxenro | 15 Feb 2015 8:42 a.m. PST |
Small ones yes I need some construction details if I can get them |
Master Caster | 15 Feb 2015 9:35 a.m. PST |
When designing the Confederate ironclads for my Thoroughbred Figures 1/600 product line CSS Georgia came last due to a dirth of keen information about the vessel and because of inconsistent information on the little data that we did have,,,,,I.e., her size, shield size and configuration were at odds with reported characteristics. Combining sketches and written historical accounts contemporary to the ACW I built a waterline rendition of this vessel which can be seen on my website as TS78. I believe her short decks ends were underwater and that her main strength as a defensive weapon lay in the 'myth' or ram fever that took hold of many Union naval commanders. She should be considered an ironclad but because of the current of the river and her under strength engines she was positioned in the main channel and used as a floating battery in conjunction with the guns of Fort Jackson. Her engines were used primarily to work her pumps, continuously it appears, in order to keep her afloat as she was reported to leak like a sieve obsessively. I have seen the reported photo of the casemate under discussion in a parallel discussion within this group and saw no conflicting evidence to make me alter the design I built for my model. Is my interpretation accurate? Time will tell possibly as more of the wreck is brought up and restored and preserved. Toby Barrett |
jaxenro | 15 Feb 2015 10:01 a.m. PST |
I am getting a 1:6 scale barrel and carriage (1.067" bore) and wanted a suitable base to display it from. I was thinking of a section of the floating battery with the wood deck might work but I also found a picture of a 32 pounder with a low stone wall the barrel pokes over and a wood platform under it. |
Master Caster | 25 Feb 2015 8:43 a.m. PST |
Jaxenro Sorry, but I totally misread your post. There was another discussion going on about CSS Georgia and I mixed the two in error. You must have been wondering where I was coming from. With the groveling over with, I did some research years ago re Charleston's floating armored battery in order to do my 1/600 scale rendition (my Thoroughbred Figures TS51). It was the best I could do at the time with not a lot of good information. I fell back mainly on one surviving photo, literary descriptions and a few newspaper/weekly correspondent's sketches. Toby Barrett |
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