Take a look at Francois Pestel's Pourvoyeuse class--two were built for the French Navy, don't recall if either was captured, then two more improved versions
OAL would be my suspicion... somehow when we were researching Constitution a wire got crossed and she was scaled to 190' for main deck rather than OAL.
Working that way would certainly cover a multitude of sins DB, and make it more likely that a manufacturer would warm to the idea of producing the moulds,
1500 BM is very light, but the dimensions are very close to a 74-gun SOL. Typically, I would say a navalized EIM comes in one rating below a purpose-built
1502 BM isn't consistent with something smaller than a 42 gun establishment ship though... but is consistent with something of the general form of a large
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With a bit of a holdup on my schooner project, I have started the first of my ships from Henry's Kickstarter today.
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