Good evening to all,
I was longing for it to re-appear online, it just turned up a few days ago. Here's a link to a huge database of French boats drawings (boats and, for a few of them, their steam engines as well):
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defens ... as/rec.php
The drawings are in TIFF format, they are quite large.
Enjoy.
Akitene