Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum - Ship Plans

[Paul O'Reilly]

Folks,

I volunteer at the Esquimalt naval museum on the Canadian naval base in Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada. They are trying to get into the computer age and have their own website on which they have placed a listing of all the ship plans held in their archives. Of course, most are RCN subjects mainly destroyers, frigates, mine sweepers but they do have cruisers (Ontario and Uganda-Quebec) and the Prince class Armed Merchant Cruisers. Their website listed below has some samples and a listing of all their plans which can be ordered from the museum itself. Have a look and hopefully you'll find something of interest.

http://www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org/a ... ship-plans

Paul

[Timmy C]

Thanks for your role in all this! I saw it posted from the museum's Facebook feed.

Will move this to the Links section in a few days.

[George Hargreaves]

Hi Paul,

18 pages of plans, how completely fabulous can you get.

Though I must ask, any chance of adding HMCS Aurora 1921, HMCS Niobe 1910 or HMCS Rainbow 1910?

Now which ones to order?

Cheers,
George

[Paul O'Reilly]

George,

Regrettably the museum does not have plans for any of the three ships you've mentioned. However, they do have some fairly decent photos of Aurora which I've used to modify the Resin Shipyard/ ISW kit to the post-WWI Canadian variant. Not as many photos for Rainbow or Niobe but there are some personnel photos taken aboard Rainbow that show various detail of the upper decks. Not much at all for Niobe I'm afraid.

Paul