HM Sloop Fly, 1776 - scale 1/36 by own reconstruction and the books from David Antscherl

[Jimsky]

Happy belated BDay, Christian

 

[AnobiumPunctatum]

@shota70 , @Jimsky
Thank you very much.

 

[Submarinerblue]

Hi Kent,
If you are referring to the contract it is the PDF attached in post #124 that you can download. For the high resolution drawings go to the website and scroll through to page 8. For Fly there are only profile drawings in high resolution. The second one is a rarity as it shows her painted decorations very nicely.

Category:Ship plans of the Royal Museums Greenwich - Wikimedia Commons

commons.wikimedia.org

There are other Swan class drawings, some of which are high resolution in the Wiki list. Check out the list as well as RMG Collections for the 25 vessels in the class. For example there are couple drawings of Atalanta that you might find useful. Be careful though, there are drawings of Hound but not the Hound 1775 of the Swan class, but rather a later brig of 1795. The list below is the Swan Class sloops with pertinent information on each.
Allan

-------------------Ordered------------------ Where built -------------------------------Launched

Swan	18 January 1766	Plymouth Dockyard	21 November 1767	Sold 1 September 1814
Kingfisher	18 January 1766	Chatham Dockyard	13 July 1770	Burnt to avoid capture 7 August 1778
Cygnet	15 April 1773	Portsmouth Dockyard	21 January 1776	Sold August 1802
Atalanta	1 December 1773	Sheerness Dockyard	12 August 1775	Sold August 1802
Pegasus	10 April 1775	Chatham Dockyard	27 December 1776	Lost, presumed foundered October 1777
Fly	1 August 1775	Sheerness Dockyard	14 September 1776	Lost, presumed foundered January 1802
Swift	16 October 1775	Portsmouth Dockyard	1 January 1777	Burnt to avoid capture 22 November 1778
Dispatch	16 October 1775	Deptford Dockyard	10 February 1777	Lost, foundered 8 December 1778
Fortune	16 October 1775	Woolwich Dockyard	28 July 1778	Captured by the French 26 April 1780
Hound	30 October 1775	Adams & Barnard, Deptford	8 March 1776	Taken to pieces at Woolwich in November 1784
Hornet	30 October 1775	John Perry and Co, Blackwall	19 March 1776	Laid up in October 1783, and sold in July 1793
Vulture	30 October 1775	John & William Wells, Deptford	18 March 1776	Sold in August 1802
Spy	30 October 1775	Edward Greaves, Limehouse	6 April 1776	Wrecked off Newfoundland on 16 June 1778
Cormorant	30 October 1775	John Barnard, Ipswich	21 May 1776	Taken by the French 24 August 1781
Zebra	24 May 1776	John Barnard, Ipswich	8 April 1777	Wrecked off New Jersey 18 October 1778
Cameleon	21 June 1776	John Randall, Gray & Brent, Rotherhithe	26 March 1777	Wrecked off St Lucia 12 October 1780
Fairy	8 January 1777	Sheerness Dockyard	24 October 1778	Taken to pieces at Plymouth in July 1811
Nymph	8 January 1777	Chatham Dockyard	27 May 1778	Burnt by accident at Tortola, Virgin Islands 28 June 1783
Savage	12 March 1777	John Barnard, Ipswich	28 April 1778	Sold at Woolwich 31 August 1815
Fury	16 July 1777	Sime & Mackenzie, Leith	18 March 1779	Taken to pieces at Woolwich in April 1787
Delight	30 September 1777	Edward Greaves, Limehouse	7 November 1778	Lost, presumed foundered in September 1781
Thorn	30 September 1777	James Betts, Mistleythorn	17 February 1779	Sold 28 August 1816
Bonetta	16 April 1778	Perry & Hankey, Blackwall	29 April 1779	Taken to pieces at Sheerness in October 1797
Shark	20 November 1778	Thomas & Nicholas Walton, Hull	26 November 1779	Foundered at Port Royal 13 January 1818
Alligator	22 June 1779	John Fisher, Liverpool	11 November 1780	Taken by the French 26 June 1782

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It's amazing to me that out of 25 ships in the class 7 are listed as lost, wrecked or foundered. The navy, and sailing in general, was a very dangerous business without the added risks of combat, accidents and disease.

 

[Steef66]

A belated Happy Birthday Christian.
I stumbled last night about your log. I have a little more time now to look at more buildlogs here on SOS (not active anymore on modelbouwforum). We talked about your build so I'm glad to find it to follow and that you already started it.

 

[AnobiumPunctatum]

Thank you very much Stephan. I don't know what happens in the other forum but I am really happy that I can follow your logs here. I read the other forum from time to time to improve my Dutch.
It will take a little bit until I continue this log. In the moment I am searching an apartment in Arnhem. Then I have to complete a special model building project for a very special person, my father, who will become 89 years next year.