As befits an Empire that stretches from island to island to mainland, across the wide sea, Corwyth is renowned for her ships and sailing expertise.

The use of natural philosophy, alchemy and magic have resulted in truly superb instrumentation, much better than the methods used by many another ocean-going race. "Sympathetic navigation" has been discredited by the Corwythian Society of Astronomy and Tides, and condemned roundly by the Imperial Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Corwyth's ships

A FULLE DESCRIPTION OF THE CORWYTHMAN

The standard ship - a superb tribute to Corwyth's mastery of the sea

The Corwythman is a magnificent ship of 1800 tons, designed expressly for the Corwyth trade, and is modelled to stow a large cargo and sail fast. Her ends are lean but with the great spread of her floor, she is buoyant, and what she loses in the finesse of her ends is more than compensated by the extraordinary width of her bottom. Her light waterline is slightly concave, but as she rises, her lines are boldly convex, and become almost semi-circular forward, from the wales to the rail. Yet she has neither head nor trail boards, but is smack-smooth. For a head she has a full figure of the Empress and Emperor. Broadside on, the ship looks grandly. Her sheer has just spring enough towards the ends to make her appear lively; and her stern, which is founded, notwithstanding she has a full poop, is both light and graceful; and her run long and clean. The stern is spanned by an arch of gilded work, in the centre of which is a representation of the Corwyth arms. The ship is sheathed with yellow metal up to 21 feet, and above there is painted black.

She is 220 feet long between perpendiculars on deck, 228 feet over all; has 42½ feet extreme breadth of beam, and 25 feet 5 inches depth of hold, including 8 feet height of between decks. Her bulwarks which are built solid, like her sides, are 5 feet high, surmounted by a panelled monkey rail of 2 feet. She has a full topgallant forecastle, fitted for the accommodation of her crew, with wing closets on each side. Abaft the forecastle is a large house, which extends to the main hatchways, and contains the galley, staterooms for the forward officers, and ice house, several store-rooms, and has a staircase in its forward part, which leads to the deck below. Over the main and after hatchways she has movable houses, and across the quarter deck, two gallows-frames, upon which her spare boats are stowed. There is also a gallows-frame forward, and a cross-piece, upon which her long-boat and light spars are stowed.

She has a full poop, 75 feet long and 7 feet high, under which she has two beautiful cabins, which have double state-rooms along their sides, capable of accommodating 50 passengers. A large pantry, staterooms for the officers, and other apartments are also in the poop. The after cabin is beautifully wainscotted with satin wood, mahogany and rose wood, set off with double satin wood pillars between the panels, and ornamented with flowers, gilded lines, and papier maché cornices. Its furniture is of the richest kind, arranged with consummate taste; and its means of light and ventilation are all that could be desired. The forward cabin or dining saloon, is neatly carved along its panels, gilded, and painted pure white, and is also elegantly furnished. An oblong square skylight of stained glass, set in a mahogany frame, extends the whole length of both cabins; along the sides are plate glass air ports, and square windows in the stern; and through the after cabin are two square ventilators, glazed in the sides, which throw light and air into the deck below, and there is another square ventilator before the saloon, for the same purpose. The tables, mirrors, settees, and sofas of the cabins, and the various accommodations of the state-rooms, and their furniture, are said to be unsurpassed.

The front of the poop projects and shelters the entrances, and has closets in each wing, and stairways outside, protected by brass banisters. The outline of the poop is surrounded by a rail, on turned stanchions.

The ship's windlass, her ground tackle, bitts, capstans, &c., are of the most approved designs, and are very strong. Her chain lockers are in the hold, close abaft the foremast; she has self-acting chain-stoppers, a large iron water-tank below, patent pumps, a patent steering apparatus, etc. Her frame, all her hooks, and all the knees in the hold, are of seasoned white-oak, and her keelsons, ceiling, deck-frames, lower deck and outside planking, are of pitch pine. Her keel is 16 inches, with lock scarphs 12 feet long, and her false keel is 7 inches deep by 16 wide, thus making the depth of her keel 23 inches. The floor timbers vary from 14 to 12 inches sided, are moulded 17½ inches in the throats, and bolted through the keel with 1¼-inch yellow metal. She has four depths of midship keelsons, each 16 inches square, and two depths on each side of sister keelsons, each depth 16 inches square. These are bolted vertically, horizontally, and diagonally, with refined iron, driven into the keel, the navel timbers, and the midship keelsons. The keelsons are also scarphed and keyed. The floor ceiling is 4½ inches thick, and on the bilge she has two strakes of 15 inches, covering the first futtocks, and these are also scarphed, square fastened and bolted edgeways, and the ceiling above varies from 12 to 10 inches, all square fastened, and also bolted edgeways. She has 14 hold beams about 7 feet below the deck; these are 14 by 14 inches, rest upon a heavy clamp, have a standing thick strake over them, and are also secured with hanging and lodging knees, the latter filled in between the beams for and aft, and strongly bolted.

The lower deck beams are 16 inches square, and 28 in number, and are secured with oak lodging and hanging knees, the latter sided from 14 to 12 inches, moulded 23 inches in the angles, and have 18 bolts in each, driven alternately from above and below through the beams, and from the inside and the outside through the timbers. She has four massive hooks and pointers forward, and 3 aft, and these completely span the angles of her ends, and cross all her cants diagonally and horizontally. The stanchions clasp the hold-beams, and extend to the beams above, and are kneed and strapped with iron.

The between decks waterways are 16 inches square, with thickwork inside and over them, and the ceiling above is 6 inches thick, scarphed, keyed, and square fastened. There are also stout oak hooks forward and aft, hooks under the decks, and under and over the bowsprit. The upper deck beams, 29 in number, are 10 by 15 inches amidships, but like the others, are tapered toward the ends, and have a beautiful set of knees, of nearly the same dimensions as those below. The upper deck waterways are double, the first 12 by 14 inches, and the second 10 by 12, rounded off toward the deck.

The upper deck is of white pine 3½ inches thick, and the lower one of hard pine of the same substance, and the planking of both is very long and remarkably clear of blemish.

The garboards are 8 by 14 inches, let into the keel and bolted through it, and are also square fastened through the timbers the next strake is 6 by 12 inches, the bottom planking 4½ inches thick, and the wales 5½ by 6, carried up without projection to the covering board. She is square fastened with treenails, butt and bilge-bolted with yellow metal, and finished in the first style of workmanship.

She is seasoned with salt; has 13 plate glass lights in each side of her between decks, and a large square cargo port; has three square ventilators through her cabins, already noticed, one forward and two aft, and skylight ventilators along the side of her house, so that her between decks are not only well ventilated, but are as light as the cabin, and most admirably adapted for the accommodation of passengers. They are painted white, and the thickwork and waterways blue, and her bulwarks and houses on deck and buff color, relieved with blue and white.

The following are the dimensions of her masts and yards. The fore and main topmasts, &c., are alike; and the lengths of her lower masts, specified below, are above the main decks:

The Corwyth Fleet - merchant/passenger class

The Corwyth Fleet (merchant/passenger class) contains 12 ships, all of which are swift, capacious, and extremely comfortable. They travel regularly to Ythor and to a number of different lands.

The names of these ships are:

Bookings for travel can be made at the Shipping Office on the Coromandel Docks.

Order of the Emerald Star: Naval Fleet

The same types of ships are employed as for the merchant/passenger class, except that instead of luxurious appointment, etc., etc., - they're slightly smaller, sleeker, unbeatably fast, and have the best weapons possible.