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131 year old iron hulled ship Wavertree being restored


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In the 131 years since the iron-hulled cargo ship Wavertree was built, it has been tossed and tattered — its main mast ripped away in a hurricane, and its role demoted to sand barge.  Now it’s being restored.  Read about it here.

 

Bob

Every build is a learning experience.

 

Current build:  SS_ Mariefred

 

Completed builds:  US Coast Guard Pequot   Friendship-sloop,  Schooner Lettie-G.-Howard,   Spray,   Grand-Banks-dory

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That photo inside the hull looks a lot like the inside of the hull of the Star of India the first time I was allowed in there, collision bulkhead was in place and the rest empty except for the Iron fresh water tank hanging from the overhead. The Star had a lot more rust and trash in there then, which was later cleaned out. My experience being in compartmentalized ships at that time, the open hull seemed huge as did the inner hull of a lumber schooner I was aboard in San Francisco. I like to see these of vessels restored, those with first hand memory's of the old folks talking about these ships are now gone, the only thing left of an era are the bones and some items like the old cheese safe we have in the family that arrived on the West coast aboard a Bark that had went around the Horn, it still smells of cheese.

jud

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thanks for sharing that information Bob,

 

i do hope that the workers will do a splended job on Wavertree`s restoration on that old iron hulled cargo sail ship.

Also I`m very pleased that the Peking will be brought home to Hamburg instead of being scrapped, she also will be restorated and moored at the new  planed Hamburg Harbour Museum...

 

Nils

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- Steamship Ergenstrasse ex Laker Corsicana 1918- scale 1:87 scratchbuild

"Zeesboot"  heritage wooden fishing small craft around 1870, POB  clinker scratch build scale 1:24

Pilot Schooner # 5 ELBE  ex Wanderbird, scale 1:50 scratchbuild

Mississippi Sterwheelsteamer built as christmapresent for grandson modified kit build

Chebec "Eagle of Algier" 1753--scale 1:48-POB-(scratchbuild) 

"SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse" four stacker passenger liner of 1897, blue ribbond awarded, 1:144 (scratchbuild)
"HMS Pegasus" , 16 gun sloop, Swan-Class 1776-1777 scale 1:64 from Amati plan 

-"Pamir" 4-mast barque, P-liner, 1:96  (scratchbuild)

-"Gorch Fock 2" German Navy cadet training 3-mast barque, 1:95 (scratchbuild) 

"Heinrich Kayser" heritage Merchant Steamship, 1:96 (scratchbuild)  original was my grandfathers ship

-"Bohuslän" , heritage ,live Swedish museum passenger steamer (Billings kit), 1:50 

"Lorbas", river tug, steam driven for RC, fictive design (scratchbuild), scale appr. 1:32

under restoration / restoration finished 

"Hjejlen" steam paddlewheeler, 1861, Billings Boats rare old kit, scale 1:50

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JerseyCityFrankie is covering this here also:  http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/11248-full-rigged-ship-wavertree/   He's involved iwth her as a volunteer.

Mark
"The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me

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 La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD           Triton Cross-Section   

 NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit                                                                            HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64               

 

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CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed                                                   Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned)         

         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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