The "Lady
Kennaway" was a barque of 585 tons, three-masted, with a fore,
a main and a mizzen mast. Those masts carried square-sails on yards,
and the mizzen had, in addition, a fore and aft sail.
Her dimensions were 38 metres long, 9 metres wide, and 5 metres
deep. She was built in Calcutta, India in 1817 of teak and
iron bolted by Kid and Company.
Her
anchor cable was made of rope (coir), the anchor stock being of wood, her rigging
was hempen, she carried guns, and neither double or patent top sails. She had
a long bowsprit, jib boom, quarter galleries, and a figurhead of the period. |