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Jack12477
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For my next build I have chosen to “go rogue” and join @RGL, @COG, @Canute, @Old Collingwood, and @Popeye the Sailor and build a plastic kit with Photo Etched Brass. The kit is 1:350 scale Trumpter model of the Fletcher Class destroyer The Sullivans DD537. The PE Brass is from Tom’s Modelworks. The Sullivans is a United States Navy ship named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers (George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert) aged 20 to 27 who lost their lives when their ship, USS Juneau, was sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942. This was the greatest military loss by any one American family during World War II. She was also the first ship commissioned in the Navy that honored more than one person. After service in both World War II and the Korean War, The Sullivans was assigned to the 6th Fleet and was a training ship until she was decommissioned on 7 January 1965. In 1977, she and cruiser USS Little Rock (CG-4) were processed for donation to the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo, New York. The ship now serves as a memorial and is open for public tours. I chose The Sullivans partly because I have visited it while visiting my daughter in Buffalo and I can easily obtain detailed photos of her as needed during the build. DD-537's specifications are: Length: 376 feet 6 inches Beam: 39 feet 8 inches Draught: 17 feet 9 inches Crew: 329 Displacement: 2,050 tons Max Speed: 35 knots (40mph) Fuel Capacity: 492 tons of fuel oil Range: 6,500 nautical miles Original Armament: Five 5 inch 38 cal gun mounts Ten 40mm Bofors AA cannon in five dual mounts Seven 20mm Oerlikon AA cannon Two 5 tube 21 inch Torpedo Tubes Two 24 round Hedgehog Anti Submarine Mortar Projectors Six Depth Charge Projectors Two Stern Depth Charge Racks Current Armament: Four 5 inch 38 cal gun mounts Four 40mm Bofors AA cannon in dual mounts Four 20mm Oerlikon AA cannon Two 3 tube Mk32 Torpedo launchers Two 24 round Hedgehog Anti Submarine Mortar Projectors One Stern Depth Charge Rack Power Plant: 4 Babcock & Wilcox oil fired boilers powering 2 General Electric steam turbines driving 2 screws with 60,000 Shaft Horsepower Launching Date: April 4, 1943 at the Bethlehem Steel Company, San Francisco, CA The obligatory box and contents photos follow:
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Thanks everyone for your kind comments and Likes. It's been fun bringing you a taste of Hudson Valley history and our winter recreational sport.
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You most definitely will. It was also at this year's conference as a work in progress. I will be taking it to our Hudson River Ice Yacht Club winter meeting in December also. I'll post pictures here later.
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Michael, the shipwrights of the mid-1800s looked at the Dutch boats and the cradles they used to sail their cargo boats on the frozen Hudson River and decided that the ribs and planking were not essential. Their desire was to build a boat suitable for racing on the ice in winter and they were mostly financed by the families of America's Gilded Age, e.g., Roosevelt, Vanderbilt, Astor, Livingston, etc. whose homes lined the eastern shore of the Hudson,. The rigging on this ice yacht was quite challenging especially the blocks controlling the boom. Snow in October? Lucky you, I guess We have had nothing but rain for the last two weeks.
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John, no ! The real runner is cast iron set into an oak board. See Post #59 for a photo of an actual runner. I simulated the runner with wood on the model because I couldn't figure out how to craft a metal insert at this scale. My metal working skills are very limited. If I figure it out I will replace the wood runner with a more accurate one. It's just bolted on. On the real boats the cast iron blade is shaped at 45 degrees on each side, the actual surface contact with the ice is extremely thin, like an ice skaters skate blade.
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How was the 2018 Conference?
Jack12477 replied to VinceMcCullough's topic in NAUTICAL RESEARCH GUILD - News & Information
New Bedford ? As in New Bedford Massachusetts? Home of the Whaling Museum, and just down the road apiece from Battleship Cove Maritime Museum in Fall River MA ? And just east of Mystic Seaport ? That New Bedford ??? Is that the location for 2019? -
Thanks, Lou. Why wait till this winter? Here's a link to her launch in 2014 on the Hudson River https://youtu.be/dzf-jeKhk4Q . Enjoy the virtual ride!
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Completed the ice yacht last night. Could not find any scale grommets and attempts to make the from KS brass tubing proved to be beyond my skill level, so I opted to use a bolt rope instead of the more modern grommets used on the current real 1:1 ice yacht. Photos of the model are attached below. Sorry for the picture quality, can't get outdoors for better lighting due to the severe wet weather we're having. And yes that is a "little person" sitting in the cockpit with their video camera ready to take a wild ride.
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Tools, tools and more tools....
Jack12477 replied to CPDDET's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
I hope you are joking. Lee Valley has an incredible collection of miniature planes and chisels that are perfect for model work. -
It's a new sub-forum of Shore Leave, Dave. Lots of interesting non-ship modeling.
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Maketh that a second Mead and a portion of black puddin, kind sir !
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Yea, I just got the same warning message myself a few minutes ago
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Guess I will pull up a stool also Denis.
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I'm here too. Brought the Corgi (dog) along; she'll bark loudly if anyone tries to raid the popcorn machine.
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Ok, Mark, Kevin, Carl, Ken, slide over so I can join too.
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