TradBoat for Model Makers
Modelling a Thames Sailing Barge We
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Thames Sailing Barge Special Photo Collection A collection of detail photographs for use by model makers. Click here You are welcome to download any of these for your own use, but please contact TradBoat for permission to use them in commercial publications. If you need them for your club magazine, you are very welcome to use them, but please send us a copy. |
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Prototype restored and replica ships are shown at Maritime Museums . and in the Maritime Heritage Section
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Click here for information about Clyde Puffers including an index to Puffers still afloat and a list of plans and kits.
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Associations
Associations concerned with ship model making. Scroll down for
details. We will be happy to include your
Association provided that its members are interested in traditional boats or
historic ship models including warship models.
E-mail: tradboat@btinternet.com
Association of Model Barge Owners
- AMBO
Model Thames Barge Sailing Championships -
(MTBSC)
Turn to our special Thames Barge Modelling Source Page by clicking here
Click here for a ships-in-bottles Source Page
The Fellowship of Model Shipwrights
Contact: Harry Cheng
Beddau
Mid-Glamorgan
S Wales CF38 2DE
Web: http://mr.sawblade.tripod.com/FMS
This organisation is non-territorial and open
to those who are interested in all aspects of ship modelling and the
preservation of ships The Fellowship has excellent links with maritime
museums. It is a journal based society, has no club house and instead
communicates with its members on a world wide basis (as
far afield as California and New Zealand, Ed.)
by way of the internet, a quarterly journal and intermediate news
letters. The fellowship is an excellent source and has members of
all standards from beginners to museum quality. Enquiries should be addressed to
Harry Cheng. Membership in the UK costs £7.50. Overseas members
should check with Mr Cheng for conversation rates from their own countries,.
Scale Sailing Association
An Association of like minded people who share an
enthusiasm for the research and building of scale model sailing ships. Members build everything from warships to Thames
Barges. Of course you don't need to be an expert to join - Scale Sail is always
ready with constructive advice and perhaps the odd bit of research, maybe
knowing where to get that plan you are after. There are members who may
have tackled a similar project and if so we can you pair you up - a way of
learning the short cuts at first hand.
There are many sailing meetings throughout the the
sailing season. Subscription £6.50 per year (overseas members please add
£1.00), three magazines a year and a series of how-to booklets now coming on
line
The Society
of Model Shipwrights Contact: Peter Rogers, Secretary 5 Lodge Crescent Orpington Kent BR6 0QER Tel: 01689 827213 |
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A society devoted to building model ships (a wide range of model ships) in strict scale, both power and sail, and both static as "Charles" above, and sailing, example, the Brig "Irene" by Peter Rogers The society has between 80 and 100 members many of them in the South East of England and attending regular monthly meetings but others as far afield as Australia and Japan. Beginners are always welcome, the subs are currently (August 98) about £10.00 for UK members, and a there is a regular newsletter. |
Ship Plans
The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich has "the single largest
collection of original drawings in the world", from the early 18th Century
to date. The collection is in two parts:
The Admiralty Collections
Comprising The Sailing Navy 1700-1835
The Victorian navy 1835 - 1906
The Modern Navy 1906-1960's
The Merchant
Collections
Comprising Shipbuilders in the collection
Owners
Designers and Marine Workers
and
The "Artifical" Collection (Mostly traditional working craft)
To access the collection:
Photocopies are available by post. The collection is held at one
of the NMM's outstations, and it is possible to visit the plans archive by
appointment.
Contacts:
Tel: +44 (0)20 8855 1647
Fax: +44 (0)20 8317 0263
Email: PlansandPhotos@nmm.ac.uk
By post: (they
will need details, ship's name, date of launch etc)
The Ship Plans Section, National Maritime Museum
Greenwich, London SE10 9NF
Thames Barges
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