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Originally Posted by vienna
Try this link to the Mariners Museum:
http://www.marinersmuseum.org/library/selected-plans-drawings
They have all sorts of ship's plans. One item to consider in searching for ships is the time period of the war. Pre-war to about the entry of the U.S. into the war, there wasn't a lot of new shipping being built, so the merchant fleets were a combination of a few new, many older, and many foreign-built ships. After 1941, the U.S. provided the bulk of new shipping. My father was in the merchant marine, in and out of the U.S., before, during, and after the war and I had a grandfather who served in the Navy during WWI. They told me quite a bit about the ships and their conditions as I grew up. Add to this growing up in San Francisco during the 1950's and 60's when the City was still a thriving merchant and naval port, I got to see an awful lot of shipping from an awful lot of places. |
Good point. Because of the Great Depression, there weren't very many new ships built between 1929 and the mid 1930's. I was hoping that SH5 would reflect this, but like SH3 it relies way too heavily on standardized WWII-era models.
