Robert E Peary by Deep Diver - Dean's Marine - 1/96

[Deep Diver]

The Robert E Peary is a WW2 Liberty Ship, she was built by Joshua Henry Ironworks of Sunnyvale California in 1940. 

The story so far is;

 A late friend left me the Deans Marine kit “Robert E Peary” just be for went into the Hospice, Jack  had fitted the propshaft and rudder.

 The first things that I have to do is order a new set of drawings from Dean’s, make and relocate the rudder, the reason behind having to make a new rudder is that the rudder tube is missing and the rudder shaft is imperial, I could ask Ron to sell me a new one but as I have to wait for the new drawings I just as well make a new rudder form the stock that I have, I know that it will not be correct but in the end it will be made out of brass and not out of W/M and also I can just make it that bit bigger to help with the steering.

So on with the build.

Scale ; 1/96

Length ;  1384mm

Beam ; 185mm

Fred  

Deans Marine   https://www.deansmarine.co.uk/

[schooner]

Nice to see another Lib Ship build.

Juuuuust in case, as you may already be aware there is another Dean's Robert E. Peary build log in progress here - look at page 3 of the 1901-Present Day kit builds and you will see it.

Good luck

[Deep Diver]

Thank you , will be having a look.

[Deep Diver]

Hi One and All

 

Just a quick update on this build, I have now received the new set of drawings from Ron Dean so on with the build.

 

Fred

[Deep Diver]

I have now redrilled the rudder post hole, the one to the far right is the old one and the one to the left is the new one, I will be using Isopon P40 filler to fill the hole,

 

 

The motor mount has also been fitted and fixed with P40; I used clear silicone sealant to make the bed for the motor to sit on and a brass strip to fix the motor to the bed.

 

 

 

In between doing this I cut out the ply subdeck’s, in the instructions it says to fix the deck support beams to the subdeck, now normally I would make a deck support frame and fix that to the hull, but as Jack would have followed the instructions I will also follow them.

 

 

I have also started to fix the deck to hull beams

 

 

This is were I am so far

 

Fred