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by **finnfan** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:45 am

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: Glacier Queen

Thought you might like to see how this little project turned out. I make no claims to accuracy or detail as the drawings were adapted from photos and with no overhead shots it was not possible to determine deck detail. However, I think it shows the general appearance of Glacier Queen as a result of the major reconstruction from a warship. Hope it tallies with your memories K494. The hull of a Finewaterline Castle class corvette was used as the starting point and all the rest was scratchbuilt

by **K494** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 4:45 pm

Interesting project.I took a ride on one on a visit to B.C.
back in '88.

by **finnfan** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 3:32 am

Timmy

Thanks once again. I have been away for a while and got sidetracked onto other projects so had not got round to following up your recommendations. Those images are really high quality and should enable me to modify some drawings to show the conversion. It has now moved up to nearly top of the priority list as I have promised to talk about warship conversions for civilian use to the local branch of the World Ship Society in October and it would be great to have a model to help illustrate this.

Best wishes

Don

by **Timmy C** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:44 am

Finnfan, I was browsing the Vancouver Archives website today when I remembered your request - have you checked them out yet?

Here are the results from a search for those names you posted: http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/;sea ... mit=Search

by **finnfan** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:30 am

Many thanks for a prompt and helpful reply. I have managed to find several pictures of these ships on the web and they turned out to be rather attractive vessels considering that they were such major conversions from warships. I have already made the weather ship conversions from Castle class corvettes and this would nicely complete the set. I will follow up the recommendation to contact Vancouver Maritime Museum and thank you again for your offer to help.

Best wishes

Don

by **Timmy C** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:50 am

Can't help much there, sadly

This page indicates their funnel marking to be red with black tops: http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/unionbc.htm

Possible lead: look through this document and see if the museum might be able to track something down for you: http://www.vancouvermaritimemuseum.com/ ... ompany.pdf
If they need someone to go in person to scan the item you want, I can probably do it for you.

A pic of Camosun III on Flickr, showing the distinctive Castle-class clipper bow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidindelta/5007125681/

by **finnfan** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:00 pm

Sorry to muscle in on your thread Timmy, but I guess you might be the person to ask. I am looking for drawings or aerial photos which could be used to convert plans for a trio of Union Steamships Company of B C vessels. They are Camosun (later Yukon Star), Chilcotin and Coquitlam (later Glacier Queen) which were originally built as Castle class corvettes. Also, what colour were the funnels?

Thanks

Don

by **Timmy C** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:00 pm

Burrard Beaver has recently received a new paintjob more inline with the Pacific Breeze's scheme:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chsscassid ... otostream/

by **Admhawk** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:18 pm

carr wrote:Timmy,

What is purpose of the gap or slot beneath the bridge of the Burrard Otter?

No purpose Bob, just style! Remember, it's public transit and I believe the original design was put out for competition. It also had to appeal to the public.

Remember when ships had nice stylish curves? Now it's all slabs and angles. These were designed near the beginning of that trend.

by **Timmy C** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:11 pm

I don't know exactly - it could be a weight/material-saving measure. Access to the control space is through the main passenger cabin via stairs inside the connecting portion.

I suppose I could email the engineering manager, but he seems to be a rather busy guy.

by **carr** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:46 pm

Timmy,

What is purpose of the gap or slot beneath the bridge of the Burrard Otter?

by **Timmy C** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:49 pm

Construction thread has begun!: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=53458&p=337945

by **Timmy C** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:24 pm

Thanks Neptune - will probably start off with just a waterline version and then maybe separate lower hulls later.

Here's a scan of the body lines.

by **Neptune** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:54 am

Wow, that's about all you need for a large scale build. Only some additional frame plans for the bow and bulbs would be required.
Odd way of propulsion, but probably very well suited for its job.

Good luck with building your own version!

by **Timmy C** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:04 pm

Yay! Got copies of pages from their plans booklet! Unfortunately, no drawings of fittings and not as-built. Nevertheless, the changes should be easy enough to address via pictures. The Engineering Manager suggested I go back to them with a list of fittings of which I need drawings later if I need to.

Sorry for terrible picture quality - living room lights are terrible. This is just a preview of what I have and will be scanning them into the computer later.

by **Timmy C** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:51 pm

I will be looking for the GA plans for sure, but will be wanting the hull lines also (and anything else, in case I decide to make a bigger one in the future - but for now, I just want a nice little 9cm-long 1/350th boat that I can cast). However, from the looks of it, the twin hulls appear to have a relatively uniform cross-section, so it won't be as necessary as more complicated ships.

Each "bus" can carry 400 people - doesn't look like it would, does it?

by **Neptune** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:58 pm

Looks very tiny indeed, although judging from the amount of containers on the ship, she's not that huge by today's container ship standards. I think your SeaBus is just very tiny!
What plans will you get? General Arrangement? Or any frame plans too? In that case you should seriously consider a larger scale build, this is quite interesting and would be quite unique too I think! I'm sure you'll like to scratchbuild it. Once you get started you'll have a hard time stopping as the amount of possible subjects becomes endless!
Before you know it you'll be thinking about building that container ship too!

Good luck and enjoy the build!

by **Timmy C** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:36 pm

Thanks for your support, guys! I'm thinking of 1/350 - it'll only be around 9 cm long!

Depending on how this goes, I'm also thinking of casting a few copies for Translink (the company that runs Vancouver's transit) and anyone else who may be interested for $20 or so.

by **Admhawk** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:16 pm

Go for it Timmy! It's hard to imagine that they're that old!! It was fun traveling from Surrey by transit then taking them to North Van for a Day trip back when I was growing up.

by **Bigdaddy Mark** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:29 pm

That looks like a fun project! I'm going to keep a watch on this one.

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