Liberty Ship

[Pit Ross]

That's right, they even have their own index EC2-S-C1

Could you share a scan? A very large number of AKA, AKS, AE, AGS classes were built on its base. The @Booklet of general plans@ are available, but there are no body plans.

here a general hull drawings line, consider that the C-2 type had several variants with little variations in lenght and fittings. American scout was a C-2-S AJ5. Hope it works for you
Pit

 

[richie incident]

here a general hull drawings line, consider that the C-2 type had several variants with little variations in lenght and fittings. American scout was a C-2-S AJ5. Hope it works for you
Pit

This is already something. I'll try to do something about it and restore its appearance.

 

[Skipper1952]

I've gone to the archive site and am downloading the complete set of plans (650 pages). They contain a wealth of information but it's a damn shame the didn't create the images at a higher resolution because the dimensions are hard to read. I can see now that am I am going to utilize 'poetic licenses' to model these pieces.

 

[Magic Mike]

Welcome Skipper to the forums and greetings from Texas! Magic Mike

 

[richie incident]

I've gone to the archive site and am downloading the complete set of plans (650 pages). They contain a wealth of information but it's a damn shame the didn't create the images at a higher resolution because the dimensions are hard to read. I can see now that am I am going to utilize 'poetic licenses' to model these pieces.

Your model will be in a specific scale. Therefore, all you need to do is scale the drawings to the desired size.
The details you need, useful for modeling, are located in the following folders:
EC2-S-C1 L6-3-1 to S29-1-57
EC2-S-C1 L6-3-1 to S29-1-80
EC2-S-C1 S1-3-2 to S11-7-38
EC2-S-C1 S29-1-1-281 to S48-1-17A
EC2-S-C1 S29-1-58 to S51-3-4A
EC2-S-C1 S48-10-27 to S93-0-12-101
EC2-S-C1 S53-0-1 to S93-0-20-1
All you need to do is enter them one by one into the search engine in NARA.
There will be other folders that are not listed, but they contain internal mechanisms and wiring that are not actually needed for construction.
But there's an easier way—I've already sorted them:
To save time, you can download (2,4GB)them here:

EC2-S-C1.7z

drive.google.com

 

[Pit Ross]

This is already something. I'll try to do something about it and restore its appearance.

look at this c-2 cargo plan, it was in my archive but I don't remember the source.
Pit

Cargo Ship Photo Index

 

[richie incident]

look at this c-2 cargo plan, it was in my archive but I don't remember the source.
Pit

Thanks. I already have that. Check out my friend's resource: https://archive.org/details/@foute_man?sort=title
Here you'll find many similar drawings for C2 and other projects.

 

[Skipper1952]

Apparently there were many different deck configurations. Some show 2 masts per cargo hold while others show1 mast. The crane booms attach at different points depending on the boom style. Some are shown welded to the mast while others show them attached to the side of the house below. I wish to hell I could read some of the original build blueprints so I could identify equipment and rigging types and locations.

 

[Davidp]

Skipper, you have a typo in the 1st sentence after the word "different" in you last post.

 

[Skipper1952]

Skipper, you have a typo in the 1st sentence after the word "different" in you last post.

oops.. I meant deck

 

[Davidp]

i know.

 

[Skipper1952]

Your model will be in a specific scale. Therefore, all you need to do is scale the drawings to the desired size.
The details you need, useful for modeling, are located in the following folders:
EC2-S-C1 L6-3-1 to S29-1-57
EC2-S-C1 L6-3-1 to S29-1-80
EC2-S-C1 S1-3-2 to S11-7-38
EC2-S-C1 S29-1-1-281 to S48-1-17A
EC2-S-C1 S29-1-58 to S51-3-4A
EC2-S-C1 S48-10-27 to S93-0-12-101
EC2-S-C1 S53-0-1 to S93-0-20-1
All you need to do is enter them one by one into the search engine in NARA.
There will be other folders that are not listed, but they contain internal mechanisms and wiring that are not actually needed for construction.
But there's an easier way—I've already sorted them:
To save time, you can download (2,4GB)them here:

EC2-S-C1.7z

drive.google.com

Thank you

 

[richie incident]

Apparently there were many different deck configurations. Some show 2 masts per cargo hold while others show1 mast. The crane booms attach at different points depending on the boom style. Some are shown welded to the mast while others show them attached to the side of the house below. I wish to hell I could read some of the original build blueprints so I could identify equipment and rigging types and locations.

You need to decide on a ship name. Then the configuration will be clear.
Here are lists of Liberty ships that were built. http://shipbuildinghistory.com/merchantships.htm

 

[Skipper1952]

You need to decide on a ship name. Then the configuration will be clear.
Here are lists of Liberty ships that were built. http://shipbuildinghistory.com/merchantships.htm

What a great link. Thank you. Bondo work on the hull is almost done. I'll be glassing it this week.

 

[Skipper1952]

Got 2 layers of mesh on the hull. Will apply the 1st coat of fiberglass resin tomorrow

 

[Jerome]

The sockets for the boom connector looks like this.

 

[Skipper1952]

Thank you. It makes it clear. Where did you get this page from? I'd sure like to get a copy of the booklet.