Digital Full-Size Plans Scale 1:96 & 1:72 Three-island Steamer Armora Suitable for Radio control

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Buy as a USB stick that can hold up to eight plans for multiple purchases.

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You may have the plans printed at a print shop or tile printed on your home printer

Three-island Steamers

Armora

1/96 Scale Digital Full-Size PLAN Prints on a Sheet 28” x 40”

1/72 Scale Digital Full-Size PLAN Prints on a Sheet 36” x 52”

Digital Seven Pages History & Photo

These Drawings are for experience Builders

There are No Building Notes

Digital emailed files are PDF,

Purchased USB Card includes TIFF and JPEG

Also, USB Card includes several articles on building model boats files are PDF and JPEG

Printing………..IT MAY BE DONE AT A COPY HOUSE

1/96 Scale 1/8" = 1'

Length 35 1/2"

Power Electric, Steam or Gas

Suitable for Radio control

1/72 Scale

length 47 1/2"

Power Electric, Steam or Gas  

Suitable for Radio Control

By P. N. THOMAS

  The tramp steamer was not fast, because speed cost money, and many of the early vessels plugging along at 8 to 9 kts. were chagrined to see the clippers passing them at 15 kts. However, the tramp won the day because she could keep that 8 kts, up day after day, while the sailing ship was at the mercy of the fickle wind. The tramp could sail through the Suez Canal or later through the Panama Canal, reducing the length of the voyage by thousands of miles.

The three-island ship seems to have been a design based on tradition. Paddle steamers had their engines amidships, so had the three-islander; by tradition the crew lived in the forecastle and the officers in the poop, thus the three raised decks were retained in the design. The basic difference was that the steering was moved forward to the midships structure. The standard arrangement was to have two hatches in the forward welldeck and two hatches in the after welldeck, with a mast and derricks to serve each pair of hatches. As the vessels increased in capacity another hatch was introduced amidships between the bridge and the funnel. By the beginning of World War 1 the tramp steamer represented half of the British merchant marine.

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