Looking for blueprints for USS Wolverine IX-64 orSS Seeandbe

[Dennis Flynn]

I am very interested in building a model of the USS Wolverine IX-64 a Great Lakes Carrier that was converted from the SS Seeandbee for use training carrier piolts in WWII on the Great Lakes.
I notice on the scratch build project by Bill Waldorf that he has blueprints on the wall in the Model Warships review. Is there any place to purchase these blueprints or if Bill Waldorf would copy them I would gladly pay him for them.
Any help would be appreciated in this search

[Devin]

I believe that The Floating Drydock now carries a set of these plans.

-Devin

[Doug Wilde]

Dennis, I am surprised Bill did not answer your question.

The National Archives in College Park have some original linens and I believe Smithsonian's National Museum of American History have an additional sheet or two.

The Archives have many of the plans for the USS WOLVERINE and USS SABLE on two rolls of microfilm. Copies of the microfilm may be obtained for about $70 each and contain hundreds of drawings. The rolls of interest contain quite a few drawings of other IX vessels including a lovely 3-masted schooner converted to anti-submarine patrol with 3" deck gun, 20mms and some depth charge racks.

For details on the two rolls of microfilm, 32138-1 and 32144-2, grab a copy of Warship International Vol 43 No. 4. In there I list the drawings of greatest interest to modelers of these vessels.

Because the WOLVERINE and SABLE were IX vessels, technically they were not aircraft carriers, rather aircraft training vessels.

Doug Wilde

[Jimmy Conway]

Here are some pics of these ships, I mean USS Sable and USS Wolverine:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8991847@N0 ... 981849635/

[Bob]

Try Maryland Silver co. I saw them there last night

B