Having built a few highly detailed and accurate models of south african ships, the latest being the S A Alphen, an ex mv of Safmarine I am now looking for plans of the Clan Ross ex Macinnon Castle. The South African Seafarer was an identical sister ship to the mentioned vessel, built by Greenock shipbuilders in Scotland in the 1950’s. I have a detailed plan of the ship but not the water line diagrams. Is there anyone who could assist me to get a set of these Plans?

 

At present I have on my workbench a 1/96 scale battleship, The Duke of York which was built by a friend of mine who is now deceased. Our Model Boat club Based In Centurion, Pretoria, South Africa. This huge model fell in very bad disrepair and was infested in dry rot due to a very moist bunker where was being stored. She has been in restoration for the last three years on an on and off basis and now is at quite an advanced stage of restoration. Needless to say I have had to rebuild almost the entire ship again. The other ship I have is the steam tug J R More which is being scratch built on a scale of 1/32. I will be plating this ship hull with aluminium sheeting on which I will imprint the rivit marks. I have made a machine which can print from a single row of rivits to three rows onto the thin sheeting. My aim is make a very detailed hull from which a mould will be made and a fiber glass hull will be used on the final model.

 

Lastly I have been building a library of ship plans of the South African harbour vessels. Plans will be made available within the near future for model builders who are interested in the older steam powered tugs and other craft. Some of the latest harbour craft will also be available.