I'd like to show you my recent project, which is a so called "Sub Boat" - a mass produced low cost Turbine Steamer of which 122 units were built at the "Submarine Boat Corporation", Newark from 1918 to 1921.
They were neither of outstanding quality nor a commercial success and most were layed up and scrapped before they reached the age of 10 years.
But in my opinion the design was rather advanced:
They had oil-burning watertube-boilers and geared turbines.
Their decks and bottoms were completely flat and they had only a moderate sheer in the forward quarter of the weather deck thus anticipating modern ship design.
I decided to build the "Point Montara" ex "Federal Bridge", which was yard No. 71 of the series.
Under this name she sailed from 1927 to 1937 for the Swayne & Hoyt Shipping Company of San Francisco and reached an outstanding age of 46 years before beeing delivered to the junk yard.
I'm building this special vessel because I found a color photo dated somewhere in the nineteen-thirties, showing a company vessel thus giving me a little reference for the colour scheme to use.
Here I found some plans:
http://shipscribe.com/shiprefs/USSB_1920/plans.html
and also in this book of 1918:
From the general arrangement plans included in the book I had to derive lines plans and a digital model:
As I started already one year ago, here is only a short review of my so far achievements:
