bintananth
behind a desk
They're more common than you think. Unfortunately, no one listens to them.no no. I think they may actually be statistically irrelevant. probably above 1% but not sure if they breach 10%.
Back to warships:
Ships of the American Revolution and Their Models
Detailed information for the model builder. Includes ph…
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The guy who wrote it picked seven ships of the period, recounted their histories, and built scale models of them. When I was a kid you could get bluprint copies of the drawings he made so that you could build your own. His drawings are probably more detailed than what the shipyards had when they built the real thing.
Those drawings were derived from drawings the Royal Navy had filed away in their archives. Models like the ones Harold H. Hahm built were made by shipwrights back in the day so the client knew what they were paying for and the yardworkers knew what to build.