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patrick simmonds

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what ship is this going to be?
« on: December 04, 2013, 08:03:47 pm »
hi,
just obtained this, can anybody tell me what ship this please. it seems to me that whoever has done it so far, put quite a lot of work into it. thanks
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Re: what ship is this going to be?
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2013, 08:04:49 pm »
No pic?
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Re: what ship is this going to be?
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2013, 08:07:28 pm »
A Ghost ship?
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Re: what ship is this going to be?
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2013, 08:21:11 pm »
pics there now I hope. wont take jpeg, had to be jpg.
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Re: what ship is this going to be?
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2013, 08:22:54 pm »
yes, I have pics.............some sort of Corvette, but definitely not a Flower class by the shape of the front of the superstructure and the funnel.....hazard a guess at being a Yank.
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Re: what ship is this going to be?
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2013, 11:05:36 pm »
It is a Canadian Flower hull, but the superstructure looks scratch-built.
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Re: what ship is this going to be?
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2013, 09:59:02 am »
It's an interesting looking vessel.  I agree it's a corvette hull but I didn't think that the "square" stern version was as square as that.  Perhaps it's a freelance design conversion inspired by S.S.Sudbury, a corvette converted to a salvage tug or an interpretation of how a post war corvette might have been modified.
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Re: what ship is this going to be?
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2013, 02:35:30 pm »
Hi ya
 
To me it has the stern of the Castle Class Corvette.   As we have said though, the bridge is totally wrong for the Castle Class.   The funnel is similar - I am just wondering though - if it is meant to be something like a weather vessel.  A lot of the Castle Class Corvettes were turned into weather vessels after the 2nd World War - also some of them were converted into rescue ships - they had big oval life rafts on the back end.   Just a thought.....
 
why aye
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Re: what ship is this going to be?
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2013, 01:11:56 pm »
thanks for the info
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