rwiederrich
I wanted to help and I had these images for some time......and the model I build(years ago) didn't resemble these images...so I knew the model was based upon later remodels. I always prefer to build ships in their original configuration...as the designer intended(that's just me).
Thanks again, Rob.
The Revell kit is a mixture of old and new. It seems to most closely resemble the ship the way it was received by Mystic Seaport, following it's earlier career in movies and subsequent static display on the Green estate at South Dartmouth until 1941. The gunport paint job is unrealistic, and the ship was fully rigged. She was built that way in 1841 and is so depicted by the model, but converted to a bark later. The stern deck house came later, as did the windows in the stern. Both are featured on the model.
So the model has the original rig, but all kinds of hull features from her bark days and forward into the 1930's.
Your pictures seem to be from around 1900 or so. Do you have more info on that? They show her as she appeared from about 1861 until the end of her whaling career.
An original configuration, in general terms would be black painted hull, ship rig, no stern deck house or gallery windows, four boats of lapstrake construction on davits rather than five of flush plank construction, no roof over the try pots, and many other lesser details.
Many thanks, these photos are superb.