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[Jonty]

  There's an excellent article by Barrie Griffin in the new issue of Marine Modelling about the Vosper torpedo development vessel Bloodhound.

  Take a good look, though, at the photo in the bottom right hand corner of page 47. The explosion vessel on the torpedo tube appears to be on the left side of the tube. Yet in the pictures above it is on the right. The pictures above are obviously correct, so one has to assume that the negative has been reversed, a mistake presumably made a long time ago.

  There's another good example of this in D-Day Ships by Yves Buffetaut with two photos of the deck load on an LST. These are captioned as if two different ships were involved, yet they are quite clearly the same one.

  Take care with your research! Or, as I keep saying when trying to direct my wife's driving, 'No, no, your other left'.

[keef666]

i am thinking of this boat as my next build, but trying to find any information just coming up blank,
 john lambert has plans but with [no hull lines] can some one explain that to me,  would it be drawnings without the frames!
 or is it easier to just use the plans out of the marine modelling mag, and enlarge them to scale i need eg, 1/24 th scale,
  grateful for any help,  keith

[Jonty]

  Three sections are shown on p31 of Allied Coastal Forces WW2 (Vol 2). They seem to be very similar to those of a Vosper private venture boat shown in more detail.

  The hull form, with its concave surfaces, is a lot more complicated than on the MMI plan.

[keef666]

 jonty, thanks for that, looking at the pages now, keith