![]() ![]() Two davits were pairwise bent into the right position and then angled inward by about 12 degrees. The pairs of holes were drilled in as explained in this post. The davits were made from 0.5mm brass rod with both ends tapered to 0.3mm. This drawing does not match the dimensions of the davits aboard HMS Hood but with a few pics I made an estimate. This is a small image from McDermaid showing the davits for a cutter it has a staghorn bollard including measurements for scale. I estimated its height at 8 feet based on railing height and a side view showing the top of the mast. That leaves the stump mast I think it was added to clear the 4″ turret when working the derrick and is not related to the davits at all. I’m now fairly certain that in the top images ropes A and B are the same. I later found the rope in action in this clip where the crew is lowering a boat this rope is not meant to do any hoisting itself and appears to be merely a side guy to control the lateral movement of the main derrick. Note that the cabling layout for the hook is called a (single?) purchase and not a(n inverted) double whip. The drawings of the main mast do not show any other lines other than the lift & purchase lines plus a thrice line-an additional line when hoisting a boat in that is used to pull the ring of the boat’s sling over the hook- but that is not a line that would require a system of blocks. But, if you want to lower a boat then one might think that the block should be much farther away from the davits or you don’t have enough rope left the luff aboard HMS Hood is meant to hoist something in. Stump masts, ropes, blocks and pulleys are not uncommon near davits as this sketch shows, throwing me further off track of the purpose of the boat deck luff. So that would mean in the image above our mystery cable is a luff plus a separate block running the rope towards the skylights (I wonder how long it will take a modeller of a man-o-war to master instantly naming a hoisting system correctly). It appears when a rope goes back and forth between two blocks it’s called a purchase when that number is even and a luff when that number is odd. While scanning my trusty McDermaid & Manual of Seamanship I found the above images in the latter with a few examples of block variations (there are others, see ). A system of two blocks was placed on the aft of the boat deck and the system was tied up somewhere out of sight between the skylights (C). Looking closely at images of the boat deck I also found that a rope was running from the whaler position back to the derrick of the main mast (B) I could not find a good picture showing if it was the same rope as at (A). I noticed there are a few ropes running from the end of the boat deck towards the davits (A) these ropes remained visible until the end of Hood’s career (D) when a small stump mast appeared as well (F). In Hood’s 1939 refit two 27ft whaler positions were added to the aft of the boat deck, replacing the cutters. ![]()
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