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One thick streak above lower deck waterway 8 inches thick and a blunt bolt in every other timber drove from the inside of 3/4ths & a bolt in every other timber drove from outside & cinched on the inside of 7/8ths
The 8 inch streak is bolted edgewise, down throa waterway and bolts about 3 feet apart.
Upper deck clamp, 5 inches thick and tapered to 4 inches to top of thick streak above waterway
The upper deck clamp and next streak below have a spike in every timber and a 3/4 iron bolt in every timber where there is no chain bolt.
Upper deck beams are sided from 14 to 16 inches and moulded from 8 to 8 1/4 inches in centre and from 7 1/2 to 8 inches at ends.
Upper deck plank of soft pine 51 inches wide & 31 inches thick fastened with composition spikes
Quarter deck 3 inches thick 5 1/4 inches wide fastened with composition spikes
Upper deck knees of hackmetack, sided 6 inches, fastened with 1 inch iron
Hanging knees under upper deck beams sided 8 to 9 inches with 9 one inch bolts in each knee
Plankshier 5 inches thick well fastened down with iron & a 3/4 copper bolt throa every stanchion
Rail 5 inches thick
Bottom plank 3 1/2 inches thick to the round of the bilge and then 4 inch white oak except 6 streaks of yellow pine 4 in. thick, 3 of the 6 yellow pine streaks under wales to flush out. The 5 lower wales & the upper wale, making six, white oak—the rest yellow pine 7 inches wide.
Upper streks 5 1/2 inches wide & 3 1/2 inches thick each butt fastened with a copper spike
Ship Horsburgh built by Hayden & Cudworth at Medford for Danl. C. Bacon of Boston, Mass. launched May 1 1847, Carpenters tonnage 577 72/95 Tons
Government tonnage about 550 Tons.
