The Golden Hinde II: Exterior
As many of you know, I recently went to England. While I was in London, I had the opportunity to board the Golden Hinde II! I took lots of photos, so be prepared for a picspam...
( The exterior of the vessel. )
( The exterior of the vessel. )
Drake certainly had access to gold, so possibly it was actually gold leaf- beaten tissue fine and brushed onto carved wood? I expect the ship's carpenter could have done it.
I googled 'the golden hinde construction' and found a couple interesting results on the first page.
http://rogertuckerboatrepairs.com/sv-golden-hinde.html
In the early 1970's, a consortium from San Francisco, USA, commissed J Hinks & Son of Appledore to build an exact scale replica of Sir Francis Drake's sailing galleon, 'The Golden Hinde', to be used as a fully working educational sailing museum.
When Drake's original ship was built back in the mid 1500's, she wasn't constructed using plans, but 'by eye' and 'rule of thumb'. That being so, the building of this replica relied heavily on the availability of historical data, shipbuilding rules of the time and visual images, so as far as possible, traditional shipbuilding methods and materials were employed.
And here they were searching for the remains of the ship, starting in 1998. Not found at least when this page was written.
http://www.indrakeswake.co.uk/Artefacts/goldenhind.htm
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