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Some of my model ships

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Ashfield - Penang - Belle of Lagos -

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Very nice (and very interesting) ships again.

The Ashfield was built by the Lytham Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. a small shipyard just up the North West Coast of England. I know the area around Lytham very well but I did not know that there was a history of ship building there so that was very interesting to me! Launched in 1914, it was a coastal cargo steamer of 426gt owned by W. A. Savage & Co. Ltd. of Liverpool. It spent much of it's life sailing the North Wales Coast (just across from where I am now ) and to Liverpool before being broken up in 1954.

The Penang was built in 1905 by Rickmers Reismühlen Rhederi & Schiffsbau AG, Bremerhaven, Germany and was originally named the Albert Rickmers. A steel hulled three masted Barque of 2039gt, she changed hand a number of times sailing the grain route from Australia during the inter war years. She was sunk by German U-boat U-140 on 8 December 1940 en-route to Queenstown, Ireland, with 18 lives lost.

The Belle of Lagos was an iron hulled three masted Barque of 244gt built by A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow in 1868. Owner W. Bain & Co..
Liverpool. She sailed long distance routes as far as south Australia. I could not find much other information about her or her fate so I assume she ended her days and was broken up.
 
shipbuilder said:
The early seas were plastcine (modelling clay) painted by my wife with Humbrol enamels. Later ones were made from polystyrene foam, shaped with the flame from a gas blowtorch with the air intake turned off so that the flame was more like a candle flame. That was painted with white glue, and crepe paper pressed into it, then painted again with white glue, and after dry, Humbrol enamel. The stretching qualities of crepe paper helped with pressing it into the waves. One of my few warships :


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Really amazing work from the models, and your Wife's Artistry is fantastic as well.
 
Did you build a Titanic? I know that if it hadn't been for its tragic end, it would have been just another ocean liner crossing the Atlantic. But I'm curious to know if you built an Olympic-class ship.

Regards
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DomCee said:
(Wyoming) was the largest wooden hulled ship ever built.
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It would seem that Wyoming was measured like a monkey measures the length of his privates... from the end of his tail. She may be the "largest wooden hulled sailing ship ever built, but she is not the largest wooden hulled ship ever built. Wyoming was 450 feet long "overall," meaning "including sparing protrusions, i.e., boom and bowsprit overhangs, but her hull was actually 350 feet long "on deck," and 329 feet long between perpendiculars. She had a beam of 50.1 feet.

The record for the largest wooden hulls ever built is shared by the Central Pacific (later the Southern Pacific) Railroad's train ferries, Solano (1879) and her near sister, Contra Costa (1914), which carried entire railroad trains across the Carquinez Strait between Benicia and Port Costa in California daily for 51 years, from 1879 to 1930. Solano's hull was 425 feet long on deck with a beam of 116 feet, seventy-five feet longer that Wyoming and almost two and a half times as wide as Wyoming. Contra Costa, built later to the same plans as Solano, had a hull that was "stretched" 13 feet longer than her sister's to a total of 438 feet on deck or eighty-eight feet longer than Wyoming's hull.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solano_(ferry)#Operation

No matter how one might measure Wyoming's hull, these two steam powered ferries were the largest wooden hulled ships ever built.

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Your models never cease to amaze me Shipbuilder. While 18th century sailing ships and schooners from the late 19th and 20th centuries are my personal preferences, I keep thinking about making an attempt at a model of the C4 African Comet or Pioneer Myth, both of which still bring back fond memories of my time aboard each of them. Time to look for drawings....... If anyone has places to look, I would be grateful.
Allan
 
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