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My 1:32 scale model of the US Navy’s 1900 Standard 40’ Steam Cutter. In 1900 the navy standardized its boats to be carried aboard US Warships. Complete working drawings for each boat were then published in a Boat Book. More than enough to build a model. A paper describing these boats with example drawings was also published in the 1898 SNAME Transactions. My boat was built from drawings from this SNAME paper. In the early 2000’s the entire boat book was republished. Used, but expensive, copies are often found on line.
Unfortunately neither the Boat Book nor the SNAME paper describes the boat’s steam power plant in the same detail. Mystic Seaport has one of the boat’s engines in their collection and information can be found about the Ward Watertube boiler and the reciprocating steam driven pumps.
For those of you that believe that no model is complete without a cannon, the boat could be armed with a 1lb QF Hochkiss gun.
I published a paper in the Summer 1990 discussing my resarch
Roger
Unfortunately neither the Boat Book nor the SNAME paper describes the boat’s steam power plant in the same detail. Mystic Seaport has one of the boat’s engines in their collection and information can be found about the Ward Watertube boiler and the reciprocating steam driven pumps.
For those of you that believe that no model is complete without a cannon, the boat could be armed with a 1lb QF Hochkiss gun.
I published a paper in the Summer 1990 discussing my resarch
Roger