It could be any small freighter of the post war period – assuming it is based on a full sizd ship.

The design is reminiscent of the small passenger cargo ships employed on inter island services etc. in the Far East but that's only a guess.

Colin

The link worked OK!

Colin

Unless one is trained as a tinsmith, it is very hard to get the acute curves of a ships counter at that size and as such you will always get a "naive" renditioning of the curvature of a plated hull, as "shell plates" are cut to shape to fit the ships frames.

And when laid down on a flat sheet, they will look like the image below.

and this, with a flat piece of tin/metal is very very hard to do in 3d………thus the bulbous shape of the stern.

However, this is seldom seen when in the water, and who ever made it, made a lovely jb of the superstructure, and should look lovely on the water.

it was probably built from photos rather than plans by a very capable craftsman, but as Colin says, could be made from photos of any number of ships, and so this is an advantage for you…..name it after anyone or any thing you want, as then, those dreaded persons i have little time for……….the "rivet counter", will have nothing to gripe about and tell you that you are wrong.

as long as it pleases you, that is all that matters.

good luck sailing it……….and the last thing i might say is………….it would look and go lovely with a live steam plant in it.

the shell plate diagramme.

Fabulous detail on those hull plates I must say!

Personally I would use paint stripper and remove the black paint, as it will inevitably be masking corrosion.

A light wire-wooling of the rusty bits (but not removing tin plating if it was tin plate) afterwards followed by red oxide paint should preserve the hull for eons.

If not longer..

Ashley

I remember tin plate being discussed widely as a boat building material from '50's magazines. Most preserved food came in the source material back then, and for larger sheets, so did motor oil. A quick way to check is a magnet – if it sticks, there is steel in there. If not, and the metal is "silvery", aluminium or one of its alloys. Old Litho plate? It used to be a fairly common modelling material back when printing was printing involving metal and etching rather than ink being squirted in a pattern direct to paper.

But if there is any rust, there must be steel involved.

As Ray suggests, resin sloshed around the inside. I would just add that adding sticky tape to the outside first will stop any leaking resin from marring the outside and creating the work of removing it.

Hi Michael,

Looks like corrosion won't be an issue you have got yourself an aluminium hull should last forever.

Regards Ray

I wonder if zinc sheet might be another possibility especially if the original builder had any connection with the roofing or building trades?