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Showing posts with label fishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fishing. Show all posts

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Photo Gallery of Fishing Schooner Lettie G. Howard

Photos of Lettie G. Howard


Offer Insight to Model Ship Builders


Details abound in documentary photography of historic fishing schooner


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Starboard bow view, Lettie G. Howard
Readers of our site have asked for photos in addition to the Lettie G. Howard Plans we used to illustrate our page The Hull: Heart of a Ship, so, we are now offering them in high resolution.
Our Lettie G. Howard Photo Gallery of the last existing clipper-bowed inshore Fredonia model fishing schooner come from the 1989 Historic American Engineering Record survey, which was completed when she was de-masted and undergoing restoration, but still offer the ship model builder tremendous detail. HAER documents histad_souvenirsorically significant engineering, industrial, and maritime works in the U.S. The project is administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. The drawings and photos from those survey are maintained by the Library of Congress.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Free Ship Plan: Lettie G. Howard


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Lettie G. Howard  under sail, photo by Nelson Micheal Chin

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Lettie G. Howard sail plan
The last existing clipper-bowed inshore Fredonia model fishing schooner,  Lettie G. Howard was surveyed in 1989 for the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), which documents historically significant engineering, industrial, and maritime works in the U.S. The project is administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. The drawings and photos from that survey are maintained by the Library of Congress, and we offer them at TheModelShipwright.com:
Lettie G. Howard Plan Page
Lettie G. Howard Photo Gallery


Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Free Ship Plan 19th Century Steam Fishing Trawler



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Steam-powered 19th Century fishing trawler designed by W.E. Redway
These plans, from the University of Washington Freshwater and Marine Image Bank, are of a late 19th Century steam-powered auxiliary fishing trawler of about 80 feet in length, designed by W.E. Redway.

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Deck and inboard profile view of 19th Century Great Lakes
steam-powered fishing trawler designed by W.E. Redway
W. E. Redway was a Great Lakes shipbuilder in the late 1800s. 

Born in England, his father was also a shipbuilder. Redway served an apprenticeship in the Chatam dock yard in England, followed by positions in various shipyards "on the northeast coast of England and on the (River) Clyde," according to an 1897 profile in The Globe newspaper in Toronto. The River Clyde, flowing through Scotland's industrial city of Glasgow, was a major shipbuilding center during the Industrial Revolution.

Redway moved to Toronto, Canada in 1886.

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Body, Sheer, and waterline plans of 19th Century Great Lakes
steam-powered fishing trawler designed by W.E. Redway
According to The Globe newspaper profile, Redway "up to June 1897, planned and constructed eleven steam vessels. These were the Imperial, the Mayflower, the Primrose, the Garden City, the Mascotte, the Mistassini, the Medora and others. He also framed the Gooderham yachts Cleopatra and Oriole. Hearing of some of his good work, the managers of the Union shipyards at Buffalo sent for Mr. Redway, and he was there second in charge of the building of the steamer Ramapo, being occupied for six months of the year of 1895 at that work."

Sunday, October 7, 2012

New Page: "The Hull: Heart of a Wooden Ship"

Once you've read our page "How to Read a Ship Plan,"  move on to our new page "The Hull: Heart of a Wooden Ship."

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Fishing schooner Lettie G. Howard lines plan, courtesy Library of Congress
In it we describe all the major components that make up a prototype ship's hull, from keel to deck beams, and explain their function. 

We also provide a bunch of free ship plans for New England fishing schooners Ernestina and Lettie G. Howard pulled from the collection of the Library of Congress.