Shipbucket

Here is HMS Crossbow as built and commisioned in 1948. I'll do other versions and add to this thread:

Aha! One of my favorite RN destroyer classes...

A very nice aditition to the collection.Classy drawing mate.

just waiting to see all them from A to I class and beyond...
great work.

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Shipbucket mainsite, aka "The Archive"
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very nice

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"There was nothing wrong with Titanic when she left the Shipyard" Tim McGarry Belfast Comedian

Thankyou Gentlemen. And before anybody else spots it, yes, I reversed the hull number: it should be G96 and not G69 (swap ends ) I'll do the Braodsword next with Limbo in B position

Examplary drawing Bill.
Only one correction to the above remark, is that only HMS Scorpion was comleted with Limbo ( a single mounting) the others had twin Squid mountings.

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

Great work Bill. A very sleek ship and somehow bigger than I imagined. Can't wait to see the rest.

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Interwar RN Capital Ships
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Never-Were British Aircraft

For those of us mentally raised with USN postwar ships in mind, the Royal Navy's period ships are so very strange. Men working an open medium-caliber mount in 1950... zounds. Of course it's fine work though!

Great drawing Bill as to HMS Scorpion I have quite a few Wright & Logan photos of the Weapons class and they show HMS Scorpion dosnt appear to fitted with a Limbo until some time after 1953 I have photos of her in 1947 1949 & 1953 with no ASW weapons things fitted down aft indeed the early Type 15s where fitted with Squids in the early1950s I need to resize the photos them before I can post them here.

Graham