Sterling USRC Hamilton Wood Model Kit

oceano75, what rate were you in the GC? There's not too many of us here.

Steve

Thanks for the input.  Think I'll give this one a shot.

I still have my battleship Missouri model, built in the early fifties. It was RC capable- I intend to mount RC gear in it but never getaroundtoit.  It is the only remnant of my youthful building.  I did pick up a Sterling Revenue cutter kit at a garage sale, and it is partially done.  Sterling was a low cost alternative for shelf scale models- the hulls were balsa and the fittings were pretty cheap, but hey, you could get a lot of experience building them.  And, I only lived a few miles from A. J. Fisher, Royal Oak, who was a prime mail order supplier of really great fittings in the day, so my Dad would drive me there to pick up stuff.  With decent fittings the results looked pretty good.

Sorry for the confusion.  Morris-Taney class topsail schooner.

Thanks again

There were/are at least two others: the Treasury-class cutter lost in World War II and the big high-endurance cutter that's in commission today.

I know nothing about the Sterling kit. I don't think I've ever heard of it before. I'd be interested to see a picture of it.

Later edit: Come to think of it, the last two Hamiltons wouldn't be designated "USRC." Having been built after the creation of the Coast Guard in 1916, they'd Fe designated "USCGC." Sorry about that.

Which one is she? One was of the morris-taney class and was lost in the 1850's, and the other was gallatin class and had a steam engine, commissioned sometime in the 1870's. Don't know if there were any others.