Would the thwarts on a cutter in the early 1900s have been teak or a white wood?
Current state of build attached. She will have two steam pinnaces, probably four cutters and two or three whalers and a dinghy.

Dreadnought had two boats on Davits,slung each side of the funnel, and actually directly above the midship main armament gun barrels. I would assume the davits were able to tilt outwards to allow the boats to be lowered directly outboard. Would anyone know what sort of winches the falls would have been paid out with, or were they simp[y lowered by hand? As far as I can make out the rest of here boats were accessed by the crane on the mainmast.

She has now left the builders yard. What next?