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Saw a really nice model ship this evening

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Philip d

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My electrician friend had a cousin of mine build him a wooden model of the USS Missouri. It?s about 3? long, all of the ships gun decks swivel. He?s built quite a few ships over the years including the Queen Mary,and Titanic and some masted style ships as well.
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Nope, I was wrong, the model is correct. The bow flares out towards the bottom, but does not protrude.
 

When I was a kid I took a book that had model ship plans to copy out from the library. I hand copied few and then built one of the Constitution. I have since tried to find that book but have been unable.
 
Opinion: Her keel was laid before the BB became popular for obvious reasons...besides, with her size, displacement, and especially bow flare, she didn't really need it.

On model ships, for you "seniors" that find your hobbies have to move indoors and other changes associated with age, model ship building is a good way to spend your "Golden Years". Artesania Latina has a wide range of wooden kits to suit your capabilities and fancies. I have completed the 3 ship "Columbus American Expedition" fleet (Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria) and the Mayflower. Currently working on their 1848 Stagecoach.
 
In the '50's, my Dad built a plastic kit version of the Missouri. He built it on a card-table and at that point in my life the top of the table was just at my eye-level; I could just manage to see and stare at the little, grey plastic pieces and the hull bristling with tiny guns (he said the big, turret guns were 16 inchers. I couldn't make sense of that and he never explained). He built several models over the years but the Missouri was the first of them so it stands out in my memory. He spent the war in the Pacific theater and Japan surrendered on his birthday - more that the war, I'm surprised he survived that party! Like most things of the war, he never told me what the Missouri meant to him.
 
16 inches was the diameter of the 3 main batteries (gun turrets) mounted 3 barrels to a turret. The Yamamato and it's twin had 18 inchers. The Battle Ship Texas, was an old Dreadnaught design and only had 2 ea. 14 inchers per 3 turrets.

Rounds like that were loaded in the breech of the gun and bags of gunpowder were loaded in behind them, breech closed and the 2000# projectile could be launched 15-20 miles. If you were in a naval engagement, the larger the diameter the farther they went and even though the horizon was about 10 miles at sea level viewing, they could fire over the horizion.

When those babies went off, it was said that the percussion wave would knock you off the deck if you were out there.

Comments my own based on old memories of such, was not a naval recruit (USAF), nor a historian, but ships (and boats) were and are a part of my life.
 
All true, and I figured it out later in life! The Yamoto and her sister-ship, the Musashi, had 18.2 inch guns; all in defiance of international treaty to limit war-ship guns to 16 inches. As they were they could out range and out penetrate any other gun on the water. Both ships went to the bottom without sinking another vessel.
 
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