What? Why This?

What type of ship is it and what is its name?

Well, Eugene!

       It's a Great Lakes Taconite Freighter in .H.O. Scale and big. It has numerous things it can represent though. From the late Twenties to the early seventies. Remember "Lakers" last a lot longer and Many were converted to diesel to continue in service. Fresh water didn't take the toll that storms did! The Company did a few different types including Tankers. But this was intended to be a Taconite or Raw Iron Ore ship. In service to U.S.Steel! He wanted a specific name, which escapes me just now. The kit was designed so you could build probably about thirty different ships.

Well it should be interesting,does it resemble the Edmund Fitzgerald?

Hi Eugene!

      As a matter of fact, with All the parts and patterns present and accounted for ,YES, you could Build the Edmund Fitzgerald! As it is I am building a particular U.S.S. ship. United States Steel had quite a large Fleet.

Very cool!I hope you are able to get it together!

Was this one of the "standard designs" built just before and during WW2?  I am familiar with Bearco, but have never built one.  I have come up with my own techniques for building lakers.

Yeah:

     Missileman , this particular ship was intended to be able to be built as anything from the Thirties all the way up to just after the Edmund Fitzgerald types. So yes, the model could be built to many different but common ships. What surprises me is that although there seems to be a group or groups dedicated to the types of vessels within the category they all had different features, And yet for some reason BEARCO was the only one offering either these or their Tanker series.