Modeling the USF Constellation Book and booklet from the ship for sale [SOLD]

[Coastie]

If you are building a model of the USF Constellation this book and pamphlet are for you. I bought them in the mid 1980's during a visit to Baltimore. I always wanted to build a model of the Constellation but that's not going to happen. So I thought I'd make these available to someone who is building the model. The book also contains helpful hints for building a ship of that period. The book is 6" x 9"x 3/4". The pamphlet is a bit smaller. The pamphlet opens to a 17" x 22" line drawing that could be framed and would make a nice background to the displayed model. $20 US for both + you pay USPS Priority Mail costs. Shipping from Ohio. US ,shipping only (sorry folks overseas)

 

[Coastie]

This is no longer available

 

[JerryTodd]

The model was in the lobby of Baltimore's World Trade Center, then moved to the Constellation museum next to the ship after the restoration c.2000

I took a picture of it in 2014:


It's a nicely done model, even if it is based on a cartload of BS
McArdle's gone now, but I wish he had built the frigate or the sloop, instead of the thing they had in the harbor back then.

Someone did build a model of the sloop c.1887. It is also in the Constellation museum, but no one seems to know who built it...

 

[Roger Pellett]

These very late “spar deck” sloops of war are interesting. As the name implies the main battery was on a gun deck underneath a light spar deck. This feature is nicely shown on the second model. I wonder if the existence of a covered gun deck contributed to the fiction that the ship in Baltimore Harbor was the original Constellation.

Roger

 

[JerryTodd]

These very late “spar deck” sloops of war are interesting. As the name implies the main battery was on a gun deck underneath a light spar deck. This feature is nicely shown on the second model. I wonder if the existence of a covered gun deck contributed to the fiction that the ship in Baltimore Harbor was the original Constellation.

Roger

My theory: some clerk saw "sloop of war" on a Navy register and thought, "that's not right, Constellation was a frigate!" then took it upon himself to "correct" the register. Even FDR believed she was the frigate.
Everyone has "needs," like people that are fanboys for pirates, and many needs turn into agendas.

Here's a view of the deck of my model of Constellation c.1856 and the Savannah c.1860's which are very similar:

sorry, I don't have an overview of Savannah's spar deck