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finnboat

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Help! Please identify this ship!
« on: March 07, 2022, 01:43:45 pm »

HI! Can someone identify this ship? I think it is a small oil tanker... But I cant find any info about it.I hope someone can identify it...
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Re: Help! Please identify this ship!
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2022, 02:48:27 pm »

It looks like a Chant(Chanel Tanker) Class in civilian colours and fit out.
The class, along with the similar Empire F class(dry stores carrier), were built to support the D day landings before the Mulberry harbours were built.
In military service the Chant Class has a large life raft on a rack on the stern and it was armed with 3 single Oerlikon 20mm cannon and 2 twin Colt water cooled heavy machine guns.
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Re: Help! Please identify this ship!
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2022, 07:19:03 pm »

Thank You! I is easier to find more info and perhaps drawings when I know what type it is!  THANK YOU!
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Re: Help! Please identify this ship!
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2022, 08:07:31 pm »

It is my old CHANT tanker, which still resides within the Portsmouth Model Boat Display Team, but sadly not mine any more. It is a 1/32 scale model build on a hull supplied by many people over the years, including ABCO, Models By Design, and I think it currently resides with Mountfleet Models. I ballasted this model to represent light load, hence the scum line cutting diagonally from bow to stern. Many photos show these ships up a river somewhere sitting at a jetty at low water with the stern down and the bow up in the air. Ample opportunity for a grubby old scum line to develop.
I think this model was about 55 inches long, a smaller 1/48 scale hull was also available, and may still be now.
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Re: Help! Please identify this ship!
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2022, 08:18:29 pm »

Nice work! And realistic paint job! 55 inches long is a big and heavy ship...
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Re: Help! Please identify this ship!
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2022, 08:28:36 pm »

Thank you. And the possible weight issue is why I opted for a light load option for ballast, still heavy just not really heavy!
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Re: Help! Please identify this ship!
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2022, 12:45:58 am »

I had to enlarge this image, as I wasn't convinced that it was not a real vessel........


Corrosion & rust oxidation truely falls vertically down irrespective of the trim of the vessel....


The ropes & tarps over the lifeboat


All together lifelike......congratulations :-)) ..........


[the light breeze effect over the water was the only element in the image that convinced me it was a model]


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Re: Help! Please identify this ship!
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2022, 01:25:35 pm »

Cheers chap, much appreciated. As they say, if a job's worth doing...
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