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>>>According to all accounts I can find the designer and >>>constructor of the large frigate L'Indien at >Amsterdam >>>in 1777-1778 was a French naval captain named Jacques >>>Boux. Can anyone give me any details on Boux's French >>>navy career? >>>Any links to pictures/drawings of L'Indien/South >>>Carolina would also be appreciated. >>> >>>Ken >> >>Although <i>South Carolina,</i> ex-<i>Indien</i> was >>captured by the British, she was not taken into the >>British navy; therefore, it can not be expected that >>British naval archives have any plans or drawings of >>her. She is described in Howard I. Chapelle, <i>The >>History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and >>Their Development</i> (New York: W.W. Norton & >>Company, 1949; repr. New York: Bonanza Books, >>[n.d.]), who says (p. 96), "The combination of her >>heavy aramament and great length cause her to hog, and >>she was considered to be a weakly built ship. Because >>of this she was not purchased for the Royal Navy after >>her capture. A plan of the ship was published in >>Vice-Admiral Paris' monumental <i>Souvenirs de >>Marine,</i> Vol. 5; this is reproduced in Plate IV. >>The drawing shown is not the building plan ... but an >>ornamental draught made after the ship was completed." >> So that gives two potential sources for several views >>of <i>South Carolina:</i> Chapelle's book or his >>source. The black-and-white plate in the Chapelle >>reprint shows a side waterline view, an overhead view, >>bow and stern views including the underwater portion >>of the hull (as if she were in a dock), and bow and >>stern lines, but no other lines. Since Chapelle >>reproduced or redrew a lot of building plans, I infer >>that no such plans of <i>Indien/South Carolina</i> had >>survived, or at least that he could find none when he >>did his research. > >Now that's a quck reply. > >Even worse for me, I have that book (2 copies) and >didn't remember that was in there. > >Thanks > >Ken

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