British queen

[Alby]

Looking for information plan of british queen built by thomas hunter pile in 1865 i believe the ship was launched as alpha cargo vessel thanks in advance

 

[Graham]

Have you tried contacting the National Maritime Museum, they may have information on this class of vessel.

 

[Alby]

Have you tried contacting the National Maritime Museum, they may have information on this class of vessel.

Hi yes graham have tried national maritime museum no luck there either thanks for the suggestion

 

[Roger Pellett]

It looks like you’re on your way to learning about this interesting vessel as you know the shipbuilder and the year built. I believe that Great Britain is like the USA where records from commercial shipyards often wound up at small regional museums. I would check those museums near where she was built.

Also, large privately owned vessels like this would have been classified by a classification society; for British vessels Lloyds Register. This Lloyds did not insure vessels. Instead they published construction standards and reviewed drawings and inspected construction to insure compliance with their
standards. For a well built ship, A1. If so, the ship’s classification was posted in their list. Insurers could check this when underwriting coverage. I believe that Lloyds archives includes design information for vessels that they classified.

Roger

 

[Alby]

Thank you roger i am waiting for a reply from my
Local museum of Hartlepool but so far very slow to answer i have exhausted other avenues with no luck the odd thing is the model was donated to museum of Hartlepool by my training instructor when i was in the Royal naval auxiliary service many years ago