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NLV Pole Star

David Hathaway — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:19:04 +0000

The NLV Pole Star is a small bouy tender operated by the Northern Lights Board, who are responsible for maintaining navigational aids such as bouys and lighthouses round the coast of Scotland and the Isle of Man. The NLV Pole Star was launched in 2000 and is the fourth NLB vessel to bear that name.

Technical Details

Length	Beam	Displacement	Speed
51.5m	12m	1,174 tons	12 knots

Model Details

Scale	Length/Width	Pieces	Sheets	Difficulty (1-5)
1:250	22cm/4cm	275	3.5 x A4	3/4 [Moderate]

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LANBY

David Hathaway — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:18:18 +0000

The Large Automated Navigational Buoy or LANBY was introduced around Great Britain and Ireland in the early 1970′s. They were seen as a cheaper way (and one not requiring keepers) of providing a beacon at sites traditionally occupied by moored lightships. LANBY’s were fully automatic, powered by triple-redundant diesel generators and capable of running on station without attention for months. The bouy was about 14m/40′ across and carried its light about 14m/40′ above sea level.

In operation, LANBY’s were not particularly successful but filled a useful gap between the need to phase out lightships and the introduction of reliable solar-powered bouys. The last LANBY (on the Coldling station off Wicklow, Ireland) was withdrawn and scrapped in 2010.

Technical Details

Length	Height of light	Character
14m	14m	as required by the station

Model Details

Scale	Length/Height	Pieces	Sheets	Difficulty (1-5)
1:250	4.8/5.3cm	30	1 x A4	4 [Moderate]

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BOA Barge 31

David Hathaway — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:12:21 +0000

The BOA Barge 30 is one of a fleet of heavy cargo barges operated by BOA Group, based in Trondheim, Norway. The barges vary in size and capacity but all are unpowered and intended to carry large loads on deep-sea tows.

BOA Barge 30 is one of the smaller barges operated.

BOA’s website can be found [here]

Technical Details

Length	Beam	Displacement	Crew	Speed
65m	17.25m	2790 dw tons	-	- knots

Model Details

Scale	Length/Width	Pieces	Sheets	Difficulty (1-5)
1:250	26.0/7cm	70	2 x A4	3/4 [Moderate]

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SS Nomadic

David Hathaway — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:39:59 +0000

The SS Nomadic was ordered by the White Star Line in 1911 to act as a tender to liners visiting the port of Cherbourg. She was built at the Harland and Wolf shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland and among the liners she served was both the RMS Olympic and her fated sister-ship the Titanic.

After many years service the SS Nomadic was sold and used for a number of years as a floating restuarant and night club in Paris. Eventually put up for sale and in danger of being scrapped, she was rescued and returned to Belfast where she has been restored to her original appearance. She is the only surviving ship owned by the White star line.

Technical Details

Length	Beam	Displacement	Speed	Passengers
71m	11.3m	1273 tons	12 knots	1000

Model Details

Scale	Length/Width	Pieces	Sheets	Difficulty (1-5)
1:250	29cm/4cm	275	4 x A4	3/4 [Moderate]

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TSS Earnslaw

David Hathaway — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:39:33 +0000

The TSS Earnslaw is a small passenger steamer built in 1912 in Dunedin, New Zealand. She was built to provide transport links for the many settlements around the shore of Lake Waikatipu and served in this role until the railway was built along the lake shore.

She is still steaming round the lake – only now as a tourist ship, carrying thousands of passengers a year on sight-seeing trips. A floating testament to the pure waters of the lake and her original constructors is the fact she is still running with her original boilers and machinery.

Technical Details

Length	Beam	Displacement	Speed	Passengers
48.8m	7.3m	330 tons	19 knots	1,035

Model Details

Scale	Length/Width	Pieces	Sheets	Difficulty (1-5)
1:250	17cm/3cm	~190	3 x A4	3/4 [Moderate]

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Norge/Italia Airship Mast

David Hathaway — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:12:17 +0000

The successful expedition to cross the North Pole using the airship Norge in 1926 led by Raold Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and Umberto Nobile was well-planned and executed. Part of the infrastructure built was three identical airship masts – one at King’s Bay in Spitzbergen at the expedition’s base and two others to act as way-points for the airship transfer flight from Italy (these were at Ekeberg near Oslo and Vadso in northern Norway).

The steel masts were designed by Italian engineers and each was 35m high with a weight of 14 tons.

The ill-fated expedition led by Nobile using the airship Italia in 1928 re-used the masts and base at King’s Bay. The masts at Vadso and King’s Bay are still standing but the mast at Ekeberg was demolished during WW2.

Technical Details

Location	Material	Height	Built
Oslo – Ekeberg – King’s Bay (Spitzbergen)	Steel	35m	1925

Model Details

Scale	Height	Pieces	Sheets	Difficulty (1-5)
1:250	14cm	25	1 x A4	3 [Moderate]

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Jeffrey’s Hook Lighthouse

David Hathaway — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:09:32 +0000

Jeffrey’s Hook Lighthouse on the banks of the Hudson River in New York is much better known as the Little Red Lighthouse. This tiny lighthouse featured in the 1941 children’s book by Hildegard Swift and Lynd Ward, titled appropriately enough “The Little Red Lighthouse”.

The lighthouse was originally built on the other side of the Hudson in 1880 and moved to it’s present position in 1921. It is 17m high and made of cast iron.

When the lighthouse was declared redundant in 1955 and threatened by demolition, a national outcry ensued, voiced mainly by people with fond memories of reading the book and before any organisations dedicated to preserving historic buildings were created. The lighthouse was saved and it is now cared for by the New York County Parks Department.

Technical Details

Location	Position	Height	Built	Character
xx Island, New York	New York State, USA	17.5m	1866	Unlit

Model Details

Scale	Height	Pieces	Sheets	Difficulty (1-5)
1:250	7cm	60	1 x A4	3 [Moderate]

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Trinity Buoy Wharf Lighthouse

David Hathaway — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:34:01 +0000

London’s only lighthouse was designed by James Douglass and built at Trinity House’s Bow Creek depot in 1866. Properly referred to as the Experimental Lighthouse, it was never intended to be used operationally – but rather was used to test new lighting technologies and to train new lighthouse keepers.

The tower was built beside the Chain and Buoy Store, built in 1864, and replaced an earlier experimental lighthouse. The new tower was used by Michael Faraday for his work investigating electric lights as a possible light source.

Trinity House closed the depot in 1988 and the site is now run by Urban Space Management under the name Trinity Buoy Wharf. It provides studio space for artists, flats and other spaces.

Technical Details

Location	Position	Height	Built	Character
London, UK	Bow Creek, London	17.5m	1866	Unlit

Model Details

Scale	Height	Pieces	Sheets	Difficulty (1-5)
1:250	7cm	60	3 x A4	3 [Moderate]

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Europa Point Lighthouse

David Hathaway — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:53:27 +0000

The lighthouse on Europa Point, the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, was built in 1841 to guide shipping passing through the busy Straits of Gibraltar.

The lighthouse is managed by Trinity House and maintained by a local attendant.

This model is part of a range of models of English and Welsh lighthouses produced under the terms of a licencing agreement with Trinity House.

Technical Details

Location	Position	Height	Built	Character
Gibraltar	36 06′.67 N 05 20′.62 W	20m	1841	FL(2)WR 15s 19nm

Model Details

Scale	Height	Pieces	Sheets	Difficulty (1-5)
1:250	9cm	30	1 x A4	4 [Moderate]

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Mumbles Lighthouse

David Hathaway — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:00:17 +0000

Erected on a rocky island near Swansea, Mumbles Lighthouse originally had two coal braziers to distinguish itself from the nearby light at St Anne’s Head. It has since been converted to electricity and now has a conventional lantern.

The lighthouse was converted to a single oil-fired lamp with an enclosed lantern in 1859. This lantern was then replaced with the current, smaller lantern when the lighthouse electrified and automated in 1985.

This model is part of a range of models of English and Welsh lighthouses produced under the terms of a licencing agreement with Trinity House.

Note the model shows the current appearance of the lighthouse. A free model showing the original appearance of the lighthouse is also available – look under “Downloads”

Technical Details

Location	Position	Height	Built	Character
Glamorgan, UK	50° 03 N 05° 35’ W	17m	1794	Fl(4) 20s

Model Details

Scale	Height	Pieces	Sheets	Difficulty (1-5)
1:250	7cm	30	1 x A4	3 [Moderate]