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amdaylight

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Anatomy of a Ship, The Agassiz question
« on: October 17, 2008, 12:25:25 am »

Greetings Friends,

I have a question regarding the book “Anatomy of a Ship, The Agassiz". Now I understand that it is about the Corvette Agassiz, what I would like to know is if the authors covered any other of the corvettes, any of the other modifications that were made to the Flower class corvettes or just the Agassiz. I have bought the Revell kit of the Snowberry and would like to model one of the USCG Corvettes.

Andre  :-)
over yonder in Portland Oregon
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Bunkerbarge

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Re: Anatomy of a Ship, The Agassiz question
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2008, 08:27:08 am »

Taken from the book dust cover:


This Volume Features

A full description of the ship and her career, along with an examination of the developement of the Flower Class Corvette and the emergence of the Castle Class.

A superb selection of photographs showing her outboard profile and details of her machinery and gear.

A colour guide and action painting on the jacket.

Over 350 isometric and 3-view drawings of odifications and the Castle Class design.



The beginning of the book does go through the development of the class but the drawings are all specifically of the Agassiz.  Having said that there were a lot of similarities amongst the class but you would have to know what they are.

I would also recommend a good look around these two sites:

http://theflowerclasscorvetteforums.yuku.com/

http://www.cbrnp.com/RNP/Flower/index.htm
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Re: Anatomy of a Ship, The Agassiz question
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2008, 12:21:23 pm »

Hi Andre
I found this web site very useful when I did my corvette.

http://www.cbrnp.com/RNP/Flower/contents.htm
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Bunkerbarge

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Re: Anatomy of a Ship, The Agassiz question
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2008, 01:44:10 pm »

Looks just like the one mentioned above Dicky!!! O0

Agreed though a very useful site for any budding Corvette builder.
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Re: Anatomy of a Ship, The Agassiz question
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2008, 01:54:11 pm »

You are right of course, sorry I never noticed. :embarrassed: :embarrassed:
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Re: Anatomy of a Ship, The Agassiz question
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2008, 03:26:26 pm »

Hi Andre,

I presume that you've tried the uscg web site?

There's this painting, that you've probably seen, of a Canadian built Flower manned by uscg crew. I haven't searched further because there are 1300 pages of photos! There are a few usn photos of the Canadian Modified Flowers in 'American Gunboats and Minesweepers' by HT Lenton

Good Luck

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Re: Anatomy of a Ship, The Agassiz question
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2008, 05:38:41 pm »

Greetings,

Yes I have seen both of the web sites mentioned above, and the corvette that I have picked to build is the USCG Tenacity, the photos on line are all from the USCG site and what I was hoping that the Agassiz book would have had some of the mods that the US made. From the photos that I have it looks like the original bridge was converted to other uses and a new one built above it. The other thing is that the weapons were changed to American guns as the box shelter that is on the kit is nit there. That is why I asked the question about the Agassiz book. I had another book on the Corvettes on order with Amazon and they just sent me an e-mail saying that they can not get it. :( So it looks like I will have to get the Agassiz's book.

Andre :-))
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Re: Anatomy of a Ship, The Agassiz question
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2008, 01:40:23 pm »

Yup,

I've seen the photos of Tenacity on www.navsource.org and it seems as if the whole lot has been stripped down.

Tony
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