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Dave Stevens (Lumberyard)

Dave Stevens (Lumberyard)

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This is a new class room in the school and it deals with designing a project and the fabrication of the parts. Before you think no way this is not for me i don't have a laser cutter or any CAD skills.
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so, if we are going to advertise it, we are going to do it

the subject of this class will be a little lumber hooker built on the Great Lakes named the WHITE SWAN

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Hi Dave, this looks like a nice project. sign me up. Have you started the drawings?

Mike
 
it is nice to have some historical back round on a vessel so while i am waiting for the Wisconsin Maritime Museum to get back to me about the original plans of the White Swan let's look at some historical notes.
The White Swan was built 123 years ago by the Burger Boat company and they are still in business. All their historical plans and records were given to the Wisconsin Maritime Museum.

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WHITE SAWN

Width 23.00
Depth 7.42
Gross Tonnage 99.00
Net Tonnage 87.00
Hull Material Wood
Vessel History
Disposition Stranded on Aux Galeta Reef, Lake Michigan, November 30, 1956, a total loss.
Build Information
Builder Burger Boat Co.
Place Built Manitowoc, WI
Date Built 1922-00-00
Source
Source HCGL
Vessel Owners
Name Begin Date End Date Registry Official Number
Jack Price Lyons 1946-00-00 1956-00-00 U.S. 222237
Oriental Mills Transit Co. 1925-00-00 1946-00-00 U.S. 222237
William Williamson 1922-00-00 1925-00-00 U.S. 222237
 
Love the photo of the two young ladies dressed for swimming in the hottest fashion of the day!

Alice Williamson and friend in bathing suits and holding a hose on the deck of the freighter WHITE SWAN circa 1922.

Alice Williamson, sponsor and daughter of White Swans captain William Williamson
 
There's a striking resemblance to the West Coast lumber schooners of the same period, such as (the late) Wapama. The question is which came first, the chicken or the egg?

i have studies ship building on the Great Lakes region going way back. what i found interesting is ship carpenters were journeymen and they did indeed journey from shipyard to shipyard. From the east coast all the way along the Great Lakes ship carpenters were not loyal to any nation they went where the jobs were and built for whoever paid the most.
also, the master shipwrights all knew one another and at some point, severed an apprenticeship under a master shipwright. For example, William Bell who built the war ships on Lake Erie 1812 worked in the Munn yard at Quebec. The design of schooners and transport vessels were very similar. Henry Eckford and Willian Bell built the two fleets on Lake Erie both went to the same school for naval architecture.
Way back in early colonial America shipwrights were not permitted to travel to the colonies by order of the king. England did not want established independent owned shipyards in colonial America.
you would think the British fleet on the Great lakes during the war of 1812 where built by British shipwrights, most of the ship carpenters were Irish and French hired by the British,

Ship design and ship building was fluid from designer to designer and from yard to yard. it is possible to this day naval architects copy designs or influenced by one another.
 
still waiting on the museum to find the original set of drawings for the White Swan once i have them class can proceed on design and fabrication of a model.
But it is always good to know the back round of a subject it gives a historical perspective and life to the model. The White Swan was a real vessel and not some made up boat in a box.
 
a short history on modeling the White Swan began with Scottie Dayton who was editor and chief of the magazine Model Ship Builder out of Menomonee Falls Wisconsin Later she became editor of Ship in Scale at that time published by Model Expo Publications, Fairfield, New Jersey. I met Scottie at the NRG conference. We sat and talked about the Great Lakes at the time i have access to an entire library at the Inland Seas Maritime Museum in Vermillion Ohio as a volunteer. It was Scottie's thoughts the Great Lakes were a vast and unexplored facet of model ship building. At that time she handed me a drawing of the White Swan and asked if a kit can be produced. The times were focused on the admiralty models dripping with fancy carvings, which very few model builders could actually build. So the Great Lakes faded away and the White Swan plans over the years got lost.
over the years you still hear the murmurs of the same old subjects and the same old kits over and over.
From 1981 to 2025 are we still in the same rut?
 
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