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Hi Everyone .
I hope you like what I am doing . I think , though an explanation is in order . For those of you who are NOT familiar with the San Joaquin and Sacramento River Ship Channels
They do have some turns that would NOT allow a regular Tank or Container ship up there to those cities .
For instance petroleum products are usually lightered to smaller vessels that can make the trip safely , the same with container and other Bulk cargoes .
The Tank ships ( Oceangoing ) usually go to Anchorage No.9 in the bay and are transfered off somewhere in the vicinity . Container ships go to Oakland container Port and get trucked from there .There are coastal ships in Bulk and Container that do come in to these ports .
These are the ones I've chosen to model in H.O.. I Did an H.O scale full sized Container ship for Just Trains in Concord and it was over five and a half feet long and that wasn't a newer ship either , but rather a conversion from an American President Lines " Stick Ship "
So they will seem shorter than they should . I have a " N" scale (1/160 ) thirties era ship ( stick ship ) under cinstruction in the frame stage and it's over a foot long ! All I can say is Enjoy ! T.B.
what was the actual size of the ship in real life as i'm working on 2 Lindberg ww2 t2 tankers with 1 being 12" long & the other at 12.56" long with both at 1/500 scale?
You need to post pix TB, PLEASE, don't make my wife come to Texas to do it for ya......you see how many of my pix get posted LOL. I'll be watching good sir.
we're modelers it's what we do
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Hi ;
The ones you are talking about were 537 , 590 foot long LOA . Many were lengthened after the war or "Jumboized" . Those plodded along at 735 ft LOA ( LOA is Length Overall ) the waterline length was naturally shorter .
Remember Auxillaries were often built in different yards and the Tank ships like the others were different from coast to coast ! T.B.
You Fink !
You mean you haven't been paying attention ? Of course I sent Pics . You gotta find them LOL.LOL.
Tanker - Builder You Fink ! You mean you haven't been paying attention ? Of course I sent Pics . You gotta find them LOL.LOL.
the 2 T2's i'm working on are the Kennebec Class Fleet Oiler at 501'5" long http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/19/19036.htm & Suamico Class Fleet Oiler at 523.5' long http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/19/19049.htm
Hi ,DDP59 !
You are definitely headed in the right direction .
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