London and the Georgian Navy by Philip MacDougall

Author:Philip MacDougall
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752493022
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

Parallel to the west front of the quadrangle [of the main store] is the rigging house and sail loft, 240ft and nearly 50ft wide, in which all the rigging is fitted for ships and stowed away, the sails cut out, made and placed in proper births for their reception as well as smaller stores of a smaller kind.

Further on it was added:

On the eastern extremity of the yard is a long range of building called the pavilion, in which the beds, hammock and slop clothing as are kept and in which also are the Housecarpenters, the joiners and wheelwrights’ shops. This building is about 580ft long by 26ft wide.

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