Uploads from THoog, tagged modelship

USS Pennsylvania

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:01:54 -0800

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The Pennsylvania was the largest ship-of-the-line built by the US Navy, with 140 guns. She took 16 years to build, and only put to sea once in 1837. She was then kept at Gosport Navy Yard, Norfolk until 1861, when she was burned to prevent capture by Confederates.

1/96 scale model built in 1970 by Arthur G. Henning Inc.

USS Delaware

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:01:26 -0800

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1/96 scale model built in 1990 by P. C. Coker.

Detail of USS Pennsylvania

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:02:34 -0800

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1/96 scale model built in 1970 by Arthur G. Henning Inc.

Detail of USS Pennsylvania

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:03:22 -0800

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1/96 scale model built in 1970 by Arthur G. Henning Inc.

Ville de Paris

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:50:35 -0800

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The 104-gun Ville de Paris was one of the largest ships in the world in 1781, and was the flagship of the Comte de Grasse in the Battle off the Capes.

1/96 scale model built in 1957 by Leon Arnoux.

USS Delaware

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:55:35 -0800

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The Delaware was a 74-gun ship-of-the-line built in Norfolk from 1817 to 1820. She served in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, and was put "in ordinary" at Norfolk in 1844, where she was burned to prevent capture in 1861.

1/96 scale model built in 1990 by P. C. Coker.

USS Delaware

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:56:51 -0800

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1/96 scale model built in 1990 by P. C. Coker.

USS Chesapeake

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:47:25 -0800

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The ill-fated Chesapeake was captured by HMS Shannon in the War of 1812, and broken up to build houses and a mill in Wickham, England. The block of wood to the right is from the original Chesapeake.

1/96 model built in 1972 by William J. Mahoney, Jr.

USS Constellation

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:24:34 -0800

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The first Constellation was built in Baltimore in 1797. She sailed into Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812, but was unable to break the blockade and put into Norfolk.

The USS Constellation on display in Baltimore was long confused with the 1797 Constellation, but she is actually an 1854 "rebuild" into a sailing sloop, where about the only thing reused was the name.

1/96 scale model built in 1982 by Sea Classics, Annapolis, Md.

USS Constellation

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:25:52 -0800

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1/96 scale model built in 1982 by Sea Classics, Annapolis, Md.

USS Monitor - anchor well and pilot house

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:02:54 -0800

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Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA.

USS Monitor and CSS Virginia

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:02:50 -0800

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Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA.

CSS Virginia and USS Monitor

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:02:33 -0800

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Of the various models of CSS Virginia that I have seen, this is one of the few that shows the raised quarterdeck, instead of just the oblong shape of the cut-down stern of the former USS Merrimack.

Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA.

USS Monitor - bow

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:02:57 -0800

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1:48 scale model built in 1983(?) by (Jim Fogle? Tom Engle? Sorry - the only shot I have of the caption card is blurred.)

Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA.

CSS Virginia

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:03:05 -0800

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1:48 scale model built in 1984 by Colan Ratliff.

Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA.

USS Monitor turret

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:03:00 -0800

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The cutaway shows the guns mounted inside.

Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA.

CSS Virginia - bow

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:03:10 -0800

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1:48 scale model built in 1984 by Colan Ratliff.

Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA.

CSS Virginia - forward gun and pilothouse

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:03:15 -0800

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1:48 scale model built in 1984 by Colan Ratliff.

Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA.

USS Onondaga

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:52:32 -0800

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One museum visitor was amused by the awnings (or "tents", as she called them), but I imagine the black iron deck of a vessel sitting out in the sun in southeast Virginia in the summertime could become quite unbearable, and any shade would be welcome.

1:48 scale model built in 1988 by Colan Ratliff, U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command.

Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA.

USS Onondaga

nobody@flickr.com (THoog) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:52:03 -0800

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1:48 scale model built in 1988 by Colan Ratliff, U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command.

Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA.