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Looking for lines plan cvl-22 Independece class

richie incident

richie incident

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Looking for CVL-22 Independence Class lines plan for my next project. Other drawings have already been found (Booklet general plans). The only thing I could find was the body plane of the cruiser Cleveland. However, it is not attached to the keel and is therefore useless because it has a strange spacing (40 vs 150 original). But when it was converted into an aircraft carrier, bulges were added to the hull.
There are also drawings of the sections (shown in red), but they are inaccurate and create dips in the area of the boules in certain areas of the body, as well as fractures due to the inaccuracy (schematicity?) of the images.
I don't need a full drawing of the entire ship, just a line plan.
I'd be grateful.
Thank you!:)

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There are a set of plans on the Internet Archive for CVL-25 USS Cowpens, don't know if they are the ones you already have, if not take a look to see if they are of use.
 
Booklets of General Plans as posted above were intended for forces afloat, particularly ships’ companies. These people would have little or no need for lines drawings that were design office documents. Lines drawings would be found in the US National Archives, or archives of the shipyards that built the vessels in question.

The nine Independence Class Light Carriers (CVL) were built by a single shipyard; New York Shipbuilding Co. Despite its name, it was not located in New York, but Camden, New Jersey, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

The yard closed down in the late 1960’s. Its archives are now held by several organizations in the Philadelphia area. If you google “New York Shipbuilding Co Archives” you will find websites for organizations holding these records.

Another possibility might be the University of New Orleans Library. A group in New Orleans attempted to preserve the last of these Light Carriers, the USS Cabot, before she was ultimately scrapped at Brownsville, Texas. The University does hold records for other World War II naval vessels.

With the current diplomatic situation I realize that anyone in Russia will have trouble assessing documents from these sources. Cabot was available for preservation because she also served in the Spanish Navy. They might have the records that you’re looking for.

Roger
 
I monitored the internet a lot, but I've never seen anyone in the US build a CVL model from scratch.
Is that really true?
 
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