Shipbucket

Here is a liner and my first real design.

SS Elbe was built in the Govan Shipyard of John Elder & Company, Ltd, Glasgow, in 1881 for the Norddeutscher Lloyd of Bremen. The Elbe had a 3 cylinder compound engine which provided power to her single-screw propeller. She was a fast ship for her time, being able to reach the speed of 15 knots, but small cargo capacity, along with her high consumption of coal, would soon make her uneconomical.

The Elbe had accommodation for 179 First Class passengers, 142 in Second Class, and 796 in Steerage. She was a very popular ship with immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe to the United States and was virtually always sold out in steerage.

SS Elbe ran between Bremerhaven and New York, but also made three trips to Adelaide, Australia

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"The first phase of the operation did not go as planned." - Anonymous

That is a very nice first drawing. I think the propeller looks too big when compared to the rudder and hull.
Overall seems to be good solid drawing, well done

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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"

SS Elbe's screw was 21 feet across, as is shown in my drawing.

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"The first phase of the operation did not go as planned." - Anonymous

You might want to check the rudder's size.
Are you sure about the depth of underwater hull (seems to be 23.5 feet), while the hull depth is 19 feet?

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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"

Dimensions of SS Elbe are near impossible to find, the only dimensions I was able to find were length, total hull height, beam, and screw diameter.

I was unable to find any draft or freeboard measurement, the waterline was placed based on the only blueprint I could use, which I will post here.

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"The first phase of the operation did not go as planned." - Anonymous

Very nice work! Lovely ship.

Nice work.

Real designs:
S.S. Spree, Rivers-class steamers, Norddeutscher Lloyd, 1891

The s.s. Californian was built at Dundee by the Caledon Shipbuilding & engineering in 1901, making her maiden voyage from Dundee to New Orleans in 1902, for owners the Frederick Leyland & Co. The ship was cargo ship with accommodation for 47 passengers, and would have led an uneventful life, but for an incident that occurred on the night of 15/04/1912. Being in the vicinity of the RMS Titanic when the liner went down, the Californian had taken no action to save the drowning passengers and crew members who were swimming in the freezing ocean. Only in the morning did the Californian raced to the scene to find that the RMS Carpathia was there and all but finished with rescuing the survivors.
When World War 1 broke out the Californian was taken by the government for war duties and sunk by a German submarine U-35, near Cape Matapan in 9/11/1915 with the loss of one life

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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"

Good work!

(just one nit-pick - the screw looks rather odd...)