Buenas tardes

Necesitaria ayuda en la traduccion de una serie de terminos navales que existen en el siguiente texto que transcribo del Gentlemans Magazine de 1740.

Description of the Spanish Privateers belonging to St. Sebastian

1.- A three mast ship, about 150 tons, 28 guns and about 150 men, A Lion's Head painted yellow, red quarter-cloaths, her sides turpentined, small badges on her quarters, two top-gallant yards rigged alost, her mizen topmast and top-gallant mast both in one, a low long snug ship

2.- A three mast ship, about 120 men, a Lion's head, her stern and quarters painted blue, her sides turr'd, streight sheer'd, two top-gallant yards rigged alost, her mizzen top-mast and top-gallant mail both in one, and very much resembles a Liverpool ship.

3.- A bilander, about 100 tons, 10 guns and two on her quarter-deck, and about 120 men, a single horse-head, and rigg'd the same as our holland traders, her sides turpentin'd. NB. She was formery a Brigantine and probably is turned into that trim again. (...)

Entiendo bien que los "quarter" son los laterales del castillo de popa, pero que es "quarter-cloaths"?

Y el turr'd y turpentin'd creo que es un color tipo marron beige...

A ver si consigo con su ayuda hacer un dibujo de nuestros corsarios!!!

Saludos,
Andreu

Cloath sin duda es "tela" o "trapo". Creo que "quarter cloath" se refiere a pieza de tela (bandera o insignia) y no en esta frase a "quarter" igual a "aleta".

Turpentine es trementina, y turpentined con trementina aplicada. No soy capaz de relacionarlo con ningún color, a menos que se refiera al color amarillento de la trementina recién cogida...

¡Salud!