Thanks, Ron, no Bird class plans, but lots of interesting things there- I had tried Floating Drydock, and Maryland Silver Company, no dice there either.
They did have a set of plans for an ASR, but it is the 1950s-60s type. The one I would like to do is the 1930s type.
Great work on your corvette, it looks really nice! I had initially thought about doing Snowberry, she was one of the first 6 built in Canadian yards, but to British specs.
Corvettes of the RCN has some interesting photos of her taken around the time of D-day, and she has minesweeping davits on her stern- it is interesting because she was not built with them, and never had them before that time.
She may have been pressed into service sweeping the invasion beaches.
I could not see in the photos whether the winch was fitted, but I assume it was there.
In the end, I opted for HMS Campanula, mainly because Nicholas Monsarrat, the author of "The Cruel Sea" served as an officer aboard her-
I only found 4 photos of her, but from Monsarrat's descriptions in "Three Corvettes" I think he was aboard earlier than that- perhaps after construction, as a short forecastle corvette, but I was lucky to get the photos I did! The film "The Cruel Sea is useful because she (HMS Coreopsis) and Campanula were only about 6 apart, but there are differences I noted.
Coreopsis served in the Med and so had a quartet of 20mm Oerlikons aft (a pretty good indication that a corvette was based in the Med)- they were removed for the filming, but I spotted some 20 mm ready storage lockers on deck in the film which made me wonder and look for wartime photos.
Today is my Friday, so tomorrow, I will be converting my Mk-II depth charge throwers into Mk-IV. I am building her in 1943, and I need the engine room casing to be removable to access radio gear, and I could not have the depth charge arbors secured to the casing.
The Mk-IVs were being fitted to corvettes about that time, and did not use an arbor fitted to the charge.
--- In Modelships@yahoogroups.com, "Ron Wild" <wild1is@...> wrote:
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> Ron....I have not heard of plans for a rescue ship as described by you. The only possible sources I can think of would be Loyal Hannah Plan Service (also under the name http://www.taubmansonline.com/)and perhaps the US Navy Archives. Ron Wild
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