Details
- Crew in the 16th century: 20 officers and gentlemen, from 40 to 60 crew, including a Master, Mate, Cook and 10 to 12 deckhands. The average height was 5'4" but many of the crew selected were taller to make more effective fighters. Francis Drake was about 5'6" tall.
- Masts: 3
- Sails 6, 5 square sails and lateen
- Hull: wooden
- Hull dimensions:
- Length:
- Overall: 120 ft (36.6 m)
- Hull: 102 ft (31.1 m)
- Waterline: 75 ft (23 m)
- Breadth: 22 ft (6.7 m)
- Depth: 13.5 ft (4.1 m)
- Displacement: 300 long tons (300 t)
- Length:
- Beam: 20 ft (6.1 m)
- Height of mainmast: 92 feet (28 m)
- Sail area: 4,150 square feet (386 m2)
- Speed (sail): 8 knots (15 km/h)
- Steering: Drake used a pole attached to the rudder called a "whip staff". For safety, a conventional wheel is used in the two replicas.
- Capstan: used for hauling up the anchor, located in the armoury and gun deck
- Crew complement: 80–85
- Armaments: 22 guns
- 2 Peteras (small guns) on poop deck
- 2 Peteras on fore deck
- 2 Falcons (long range guns using two pound shot) in forecastle
- 2 Falcons in stern
- 14 Minions (guns using four pound shot) on gun deck
- Load: ca. 100–150 tons (100–150 tonnes)
- Maximum capacity of people was 95.
Read more about this topic: Golden Hind
Famous quotes containing the word details:
“Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)