WW1 TBD Decking

When I set up my account my first topic title somehow became my Display Name I can find no way of either changing it or any ‘contact us’ links. This is a VERY useful club but its design leaves a LOT to be desired - or am I being stupid?!

I am building a 36” model of KMS Violet, a TBD built in 1896. As you can see from the photo, the name appears on the port side at the stern. My question is :- Does anyone know if the name should be repeated on the starboard side as well?

also the depth numbers are seen on the bow so would they be repeated at the stern as well? My photo showing the name does not include any depth markings but it is only a photo of the rear of the stern near the deck

any ideas would be really helpful!

And make a metal jig. Thanks for your reply

I did consider brass but I need to keep the top weight down but i think I might try an 

I am scratch-building a 1/72 scale TBD (HMS Violet) and have come to a problem, namely making the circular wooden gun platforms made from slats, like a wheel, with the gun mounting in the middle. There were 2 of these on Violet - over the Conning Tower and near the quarter deck. They are 47mm diameter
 

Has anyone any nice ideas how to construct these bandstands? My efforts to date are just too crude to pass muster. Any help would be really appreciated!!

15 hours ago, lmagna said:

Don't know if it is considered a "source" but here was someone's interpretation.

3 hours ago, bruce d said:

Hello George, welcome to MSW. Perhaps you already know this but the Tyne and Wear Archives ...

https://twarchives.org.uk/

... hold a collection of photographs of torpedo boats etc and may be able to help. Even if Violet s not among the photos you may see her contemporaries. Ignore their website search function, it doesn't seem to look at the photo collections so I am afraid you will need to contact them for access terms.

 

Also, in case you do not already have this, Violet was involved in a collision with the drifter 'Angelina' 22 September 1918. The records of this accident are held at the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) Archive ...

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-ukho-archive

... under the file reference HD/1918/3710. Again, do not rely on the site search facility, I suggest contacting them and qouting the file number to see if it contains photographs or reports of potential use.

	HTH, Bruce

Bruce

I have seen this and it is definitely a builders’ model, specially for sales and marketing purposes! I have tried contacting the current  builders but no joy.  

On 9/4/2021 at 11:06 PM, Jim Lad said:

Hello and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'.

 

Perhaps you might like to put a post in 'New Member Introductions' to introduce yourself to us.

 

You might also consider a building log of your model so that we can enjoy it along with you.

 

If you simply Google HMS Violet you'll find quite a lot of good images of her.  Those images clearly show that here main deck wasn't planked.

 

John 

Thanks John but Googling HMS Violet was the first thing I did but got nowhere. There are a lot of TBD models - including the original builders (Doxford) model but i do not think they are necessarily accurate. Most show oak planking or Cortiscene but The metal deck of the hulk in the 1940/50s had nothing that I remember, but my friends and I were not interested in that sort of detail!!! So the search goes on.

George

On 9/6/2021 at 10:55 AM, wefalck said:

Not sure, whether this was also correct for the RN, but in other navies at the beginning of the War, they ripped off deck-planking and Linoleum, particularly also on interior decks, in order to reduce fire hazards. This certainly did not improve the living conditions, but in war-time there are other priorities.

 

Steel decks were typically painted in oil paint mixed with sand in order to improve the foothold during wet wheather. Or they used some wild concoctions containing cement, marine-glue etc. with coarse sand.

This is really useful - there are almost no photographs of these ships showing the decks. The one I did find  shows a section of the deck by the stern and is not really clear enough for me to be sure. If the deck was painted do you know what the colour might have been?

this is the link.   https://images.app.goo.gl/GKMi83CfhygrXeTQ7

thanks 

I am building a 36” model of the “C” class HMS Violet (1898-1920) and trying to find out if the main deck was planked or covered with Corticene or just steel. If it was just steel, what colour did they paint it? As a boy in the 1940s and early 1950s I used to play on her rusted hulk where she was beached on the river Forth in Fife. By then the decks were just steel with no traces of any covering or paint. If anyone can help my research I would be very grateful