The Cornelius Grinnell is built of oak, scantlings mostly of yellow pine. She is seasoned with salt, caulked in the hold and well ventilated. She has 12 inches dead rise at half-floor, a fooot swell or rounding of sides and about 26 inches sheer.
Her keel is sided 16 inches, moulded 30 inches forward and 26 inches aft; the floor timbers in the throats are 12 inches by 17 inches; she has 3 keelsonms, each 15 inches square, or combined 16 inches by 45 inches, making her backbone about 7½ feet through from the top of the keelson to the base of the keel, of course, incling the moulding of the floor timbers.
There are two bolts through every floor timber and the keel; one of 1¼ inch copper driven through and rivetted, and the other of refined iron of the same size, driven through the keelsons and down blunt into the keel.
She has also sister and bilge keelsons, and a stringer 7 feet below the deck, over which the lower ends of the hanging knees lap and through which they are bolted. The sister keelsons are 15 inches square, bolted through the naval timbers, the midship keelsons and each other. The bilge keelsons, two on each side, are 10 inches by 16 inches, and the stringer is 14 inches by 15 inches all square bolted with 1¼ inch iron.
The ceiling on the floor is 4½ inches thick, square fastened with inch iron, and all the other ceiling up to the deck is 7½ inch thick, also square bolted: in a word she is square fastened throughout. Forward she has 7 hooks and pointers; and aft 5, all of oak and very closely bolted.
About 10 feet above the ceiling she has 7 hold beams, viz., one before the foremast, 3 between it and the mainmast, and 3 between the main and mizen masts. These have standing, lodging and hanging knees of oak, and pass through the midship stanchions, which are fitted to support them and extend to the beams above. These beams are 15 inch by 12 inch; the lower deck beams 15 inch by 16 inch, and the upper deck beams 15 inch by 16 inch, all of southern pine.
The hanging knees of the hold are of oak, those in the 'tween decks of hacmatack; and her hold stanchions, which are 10-inch square, are kneed to beams and keelson. Thses are entirely new points of construction. The lower deck waterways are 15 inches square, and the two strakes over them 10 by 12 inches, those inside of them each 5 inches by 7 inches, bolted vertically and horizontally. The planking of both decks is 3½ inches thick, and the ceiling of the 'tween decks is all 5 inches except the clamp which is 6 inches. Her transom is 16 inches square, the knees and breast hooks in the 'tween decks are very stout and closelybolted. The upper deck waterways are 12 inches square, the plank sheer 6 by 16 inches, and main rail of same substance. Her garboards are 7 inches thick, the next strake 6 and the third 5 inch, which is tapered to 4½ inches, the substance of the planking at the bottom. She has 20 strakes of wales of 7 by 5½ inches and the waist's is 4½. Her bulwarks are 5½ feet high and surmounted by a monkey rail.
Transcribed by Lars Bruzelius.
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