According to the script plot taken from the book series "Pirates Caribbean Sea"E.S. Crispina, Future" The Black Pearl was originally named "Wicked Wench" and was owned by the East India Company as a merchant ship. It was a three-masted galleon with a golden-yellow hull and snow-white sails.

It is not known for certain when exactly the ship was built, but Lord Cutler Beckett, director of the West African Representative Office of the East India Company, received it at a very advanced age.

The "Slutty Wench" was docked in Calabar (Africa, Gulf of Guinea) at the very moment when the brig "Fair Wind" under the command of Jack Sparrow arrived at the port. Fair Wind also belonged to the East India Company. The ship's captain, Nathaniel Brainbridge, was killed by Esmeralda, the terror of the Caribbean and the pirate lord of the time. But Jack Sparrow, the first mate of the Fair Wind, saved the ship from falling into the hands of pirates. Cutler Beckett, having received Sparrow's report on how he saved the ship and most of its cargo from pirates, was so impressed that he offered him the captaincy of the Slutty Wench.

Captain Jack Sparrow, commanding the "Slutty Wench", carried out many contracts for the East India Company on behalf of Lord Beckett..." (http://otdatshvartovy.ru/vymyshlennye...l#more-50)

Everything would be fine, but!

Britain, and in particular the British East India Campaign, were only able to establish outposts and settlements in southern Africa after the bankruptcy of the Dutch East India Campaign in 1794.
Scottish missionaries appeared in Calabar only in 1846, and a British protectorate centered in Calabar did not appear until the 1880s.

In other words, there was no West African representation of the British East India Campaign and, therefore, Dutch ships could have been stationed in the port (and not in the docks) of Calabar in the 17th - 18th centuries.
The first white settlers settled in the south of the African continent in 1652, when the representative of the Dutch East India Company, Jan van Riebeeck, founded a provisions point near the Cape of Good Hope to supply ships traveling from Europe to Asia.

This means that a “merchant ship of the British East India campaign” could not exist in nature.

But if you forget about the English origin of Cutler and Jack Sparrow, or the British origin of “Wicked Wench,” then attention is immediately drawn to the Dutch ships of the 17th century and, above all, pinnaces.

One of the first creations of the free republic of the Netherlands (in 1582 the Dutch were finally freed from Spanish protectorate) was the East India Company, founded in 1602 with the permission of the Estates General.

Thanks to its own well-built and durable fleet, the company, which received a monopoly on trade with Asian countries, soon becomes one of the richest in the world. A type of new merchant ship appears. These ships had three masts and were armed with 16 to 20 small cannons, although they were not intended for combat. The average displacement of East Indian ships was about 600 tons. The ratio of hull length to width for ships of this type was even greater than that of the galleon. To give the ship strength, the frames were placed at a short distance from each other, and in places where the masts were installed they were made double. The set was supported by horizontal and vertical brackets. The ship's hull was made of oak wood - in total, at least two thousand well-dried oak trees were required for construction. When cutting wood, care was taken to ensure that the bend of the fibers matched the shape of the part being cut. A part made in this way became “eternal.” Oak boards they preferred to attach the skins to the frames using wooden spikes - the iron nails rusted too quickly in the salty sea ​​water. Meanwhile, nails were used to fasten less critical elements of the ship's structure. So, to protect the vessel below the waterline from wood-boring beetles, bottom part the hulls were additionally sheathed thin boards from elm. The nails that secured this “second skin” were placed so tightly together that their heads formed an almost continuous iron coating.

The spacious deck of East Indian ships was free, and in the bow it was limited by a transverse bulkhead (bikged). The protruding nasal extremity - the latrine, the design of which was adopted from the galleys, was gradually limited curved slats(regels). In the low quarterdeck at the stern there were officer cabins with wide, bright windows. A galley was usually equipped under the tank. Many new technical devices appeared that made the team’s hard work easier. For example, they begin to use a special cat-beam to lift the anchor. The pump helps sailors quickly pump out water that has leaked into the holds. And to load goods on merchant ships, horizontal winches were installed - windlasses.

A couple of decades pass, and in England, which did not want to come to terms with the loss of the title of “Queen of the Seas,” they begin to build military frigates. The ancestor of the first frigate, built in 1646 by the famous British shipbuilder Peter Pett, was a Dutch pinnace with its high stern superstructures, blind topmast and rich decor.

Look at the replica of the Dutch pinnace "Kalmar Nukel" built in 1625 and the first English "true frigate" - the 34-gun "Constance Warwick", built by Peter Pett in 1646 and compare them with the "Black Pearl".

Now everything is ready for the next stage. Let's lay the deck. I used 5mm wide, 1.5mm thick maple slats.

The stumbling block on all forums is how to blacken the joints, imitating caulk. Options: black thread, tinted PVA, chamfering and subsequent patination, dark veneer, painted ends, photo paper, painted Whatman/tracing paper, etc. I chose tracing paper.

Cut off a piece of tracing paper. We paint over it with mascara and hang it to dry. The consumption was small - about one and a half painted A4 sheets.

Since there is no theoretical drawing of the Black Pearl, we had to come up with the location of the beams, guided by common sense - if possible, place them along the boundaries of the hatches and future ladders into the hold.

The average distance was 2.5 cm.

We put the central rail. Be sure to complete it so as not to fail the direction.

Cut the tracing paper into "noodles"

glue it to the end of the slats.

After some time, we observe the beauty increasing with each new slate placed. The first two slats around the grille simulate a reinforced belt. The boards are as long as possible. Then he put it on three boards. I wanted to go at five, but the deck is not wide enough.

By the end of the second day the deck is covered. Let's scrape it off with a knife. The surface is leveled well, making holes is difficult. Except that the knife increases micro-irregularities by jumping over them during wiring, so it’s better to leave problem areas. Still sand everything.

To lay the remaining decks, the bulkheads need to be refined. I have attached a template, here you can see how crooked the feed was - the consequences of the screw and numerous corrections. Later I extended the side with linden slats.

Bulkhead in the nose. My first pear design. I sealed the hold with molar tape.

Next we construct the aft bulkhead. To do this, we assemble a primitive conductor. We glue paper onto the main plywood, another plywood on top, repeating the destruction of the deck, and on paper we sketch out the approximate location of the doors and windows. The bottom two slats had to be steamed and held in another conductor.

After some time, the main part of the bulkhead is ready.

It's outside the windows. We assemble gratings from 1x2 mm slats.

We soak the outer part and bend it onto the window template. Then we glue it onto the plexiglass and then glue in the grilles.

We return to the decks. On the bow, we separately imitate the boards around the mast (they wore out quickly and were then replaced), and we narrowed the main boards from 5 to 4 mm. We make an inset along the edges.

The stern is a little more difficult. We narrow 19 slats from 5 to 2.5 mm. Couldn't mechanize the process. I had to squeeze it with my hands. First with a small plane, then with a sandpaper. The decks are laid.

Performed nailing on the nose.

By the way, here are the real pins:

The process looks like this. We make markings. We prepare round rods with a diameter of 0.6 mm and drill holes.

Dilute PVA with water. We dip the rod, insert it into the hole, and bite it off. And so 700-800 times.

Then we carefully sand it.

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I would like to introduce you to my 2nd job in shipbuilding. This model was going to be given as a housewarming gift to my good friend. It was necessary to meet a fairly tight deadline. The main goal of the work is to create the appearance of an almost complete copy of a real ship for an uninitiated viewer. I think that I coped with this task adequately.

Due to this condition, I deliberately reduced the detail, but only where it would not be visible to the “uninitiated”. With the hull assembled in detail, maximum simplifications affected the rigging. In some places there are no blocks, in others the wiring of gear is simplified. There are no buoys at anchor, no bell, the tying of the guns is simplified, there are no coils of ropes on the bollards, etc. etc.

Elements from the magazine series “collect the Black Pearl” were used as a frame. Everything else is Mozhga rulers and Cosmofen glue. Sails - synthetic fabric plus cotton. Rigging - nylon threads plus ropes ordered from the Shipyard on the table. Cannon barrels, deadeyes and blocks are also from the Shipyard.
The blog is divided into 2 parts:

One of the most difficult stages in building a ship model is rightly considered to be the struggle with the latrine and the aft gallery. A lot of parts mating in three planes at once, constant adjustments. By the way, there was a moment when I threw slats, shouted obscenities, it seemed that this stage would never end. But in order.

Latrine. Apple. Amazing tree. It seems solid, but it seems to be processed better than pear. Initially almost white, under oil it turns bright yellow. We cut out the railings in pairs, on both sides at once.

We select it on a router and make shagreen with an awl.

Separate problems with a curl.

Then there are the frames. L-shaped parallelepipeds. I spent half a day with the first one, and about twenty minutes with the last one. The main thing is to come up with a manufacturing technology. First I glued the guides to the cyacrine according to the template, then the frames themselves, there was no other way.

Gallery. The front part is made of linden, the “bottom shelf” is made of pear.

The fun begins at the stern, where the "shelf" repeats the deck's destruction.

The gallery walls have already been installed. The future roof is being tried on.

Next up are the windows. We make a parallelogram from plastic. First we make horizontal grooves. We glue the bars.

Then we turn the part over and make it vertical.

We grind it on a grinder and try it on. By the way, the roof has already been removed.

Then we insert vertical bars into the windows and finally form the frame. By the way, the plastic was thick (5 mm), it turned out that all the internal edges were clearly visible, I had to reduce the thickness to 2 mm and then polish the internal surfaces.

The windows are in place. There is shagreen on the roof.

Bad Hollywood designers created a bunch of railings for ChZh. There is no higher side and gunwale. But no. Drill with a 2 mm drill.

During breaks we make a ladder. The steps are made from one piece. The bottom “block” is simply milled.

Meanwhile, the gallery takes on a residential appearance. "Fildepers" slats are made figure cutter, created from a needle file.

There will be threaded plugs on the sides instead of windows. They are waiting in the wings.

We return to the railing. The holes are drilled using a drill and drill stand to maintain verticality.

We square the holes with a micro-chisel (2 mm) made from the same file, and glue the bars.

There are a lot of bars.

We mill the railings themselves on the sides. First detail. The grooves were cut with a hacksaw and finished with a square file. Then the part is bent on an iron.

On the spot.

After mascara.

Let's continue.

We make cut-beams in one installation on a router. All that's left is sanding.

The railings are standing. The ladders have been completed. Parts of the velkhouts under the channel have been removed.

And delicious roaster grills. Take a piece of apple tree. We pass with a millimeter cutter in millimeter increments across the grain. Then with less depth along. A caveat is that you have to serve it in dozens, otherwise the cubes will break off. You look out the window and turn it slowly and slowly. For a long time.

Insert cross boards.

And we remove the excess.

We make a groove from the bottom using a scoring cutter. That's it, all that remains is to remove it and go over it lightly with sandpaper.

Now the ChZh is covered with a final layer of oil and tinted. It's drying up. To be continued.