Looking for boat plans or model kit

[Carl W]

I have been searching the internet for boat plans or a model kit to build a CG 100's series Rum Chaser from the 1920s & 1930s prohibition era in the United States. I have found lots of photo references but no real boat plans or model kits. I have 1 drawing of a side view but that is all. See drawing. Also see a real photo of boat. My plan now looks like I will scratch-build one using my 3D software using photos unless I can find something more. Please let me know of any sources you may know of.

Thank you,
Carl Whitten

 

[AllanKP69]

Please let me know of any sources you may know of.

Hi Carl,

Have you contacted the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian or the Coast Guard Academy?

I did a quick search on the LoC and found the below. There are seven drawings for this vessel. There may be others closer to the one you want to build.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.dc1236.sheet?st=gallery

Allan

 

[Carl W]

Thanks Allan,
I have searched some of these and mostly come up with photos and newspaper stories. Not any CG boat plans as old as I want. I will continue to look.

 

[Jwallkc]

Not the same thing but Model Shipways made a rum runner kit

 

[Bob Cleek]

The USCG 100 Series 75-foot patrol boats were a standard design. The entire set of engineering drawings for these vessels should be in United States National Archives. At one point the sea services kept their own plans archives, but about 20 years ago there was a reorganization, and the Navy Bureau of Ships and the USCG turned all their archived vessel plans for vessels not currently in service over to the National Archives. All extant government ships plans for vessels not presently in government service going back to about 1780 are now located at the Cartographic Research Room of the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. (Obviously, this isn't just one room. That's just what they call it. They have huge warehouses full of ships engineering drawings stored away the same way they stored the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The government never throws anything away. )

Copies of ships plans in the National Archives can be located, identified, and in some instances accessed online in digital format, or ordered as printed copies, by following the instructions on the National Archives website: https://www.archives.gov/research/cartographic/ship-plans

All the extant plans for all USCG vessels can be located online in Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1785 - 2005 found at https://www.archives.gov/research/cartographic/ship-plans. Realize that there will probably be a fair amount of drawings that won't be relevant to making a model, such as electrical wiring diagrams, plumbing schedules, internal mechanics, and the like, so you'll want to sort through the plans index to decide what you'll want and what you don't need.