PS Cobra/ST Tudno

[Stuart Badger]

Hi All!

just to let you know that my next project will be a LARGE model of PS Cobra/St Tudno built by Fairfields.

I have ordered the drawings and am waiting! The National Maritime Museum can now build a new wing!!!!

Any non obvious info gratefully received.

All the best

Stuart Badger.

[marinemole]

WOT!  Only two funnels

Looks a cracker. How LARGE is LARGE

Andy

[Stuart Badger]

Between 3 and 4 metres Andy.

All the best

Stuart

[Eddy Matthews]

Get the long wheelbase van ordered for next september Andy

Regards
Eddy

[marinemole]

That IS big Stuart! Looking forward to seeing this one.

Eddie. Lachie and I are getting quite good at transporting large models. He came up today and we got Connaught down to Lomond Shores without knocking anything off, only to discover that, despite the flat calm in the village, there was a really wicked swell pushing down the Loch. Decided discretion was the better part of valour and took the models home.

Andy

[greateastern]

Hi All!

just to let you know that my next project will be a LARGE model of PS Cobra/St Tudno built by Fairfields.

I have ordered the drawings and am waiting! The National Maritime Museum can now build a new wing!!!!

Any non obvious info gratefully received.

All the best

Stuart Badger.

Stuart, we must be sharing some telepathy here--I have this on the back burner for a model of it as USS Tudno when it worked for the US Navy.

[Eddy Matthews]

I'm sure you have most of these images Stuart, but I stumbled across them today....

Eddy

[greateastern]

Here's her American service:
USS Tudno (1918-1919)

USS Tudno, a 754 ton paddle-wheel personnel ferry, was built in 1891 at Glasgow, Scotland, as the commercial steamship H.T. Jackson. Later renamed Saint Tudno, she was employed in British waters and in the English Channel. Loaned to the U.S. Navy in about October 1918, she was placed in service, with her name shortened to Tudno, carrying passengers between troopships and the shore at Brest, France. This important, if somewhat prosaic, work continued until mid-August 1919, when Tudno steamed to Southampton, England, and was returned to British custody. Her subsequent civilian service, again under the name Saint Tudno, lasted until the mid-1920s. and here you see some pictures of her in use
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-t/tudno.htm

[Sandy]

I may be wrong here, but weren't there two paddle steamers called St Tudno?

Is the one used by the US Navy the second one? There are differences in lifeboat placement between the two?

Just checked the previous post ad Kim had a link that explains it.

Nice US Navy photos. Interesting to see that, when taken into Navy use, either US or Bristish, enclosed bridges were fitted.

All the best

[greateastern]

Sandy, you are absolutely correct. :-[I'd say back to the drawing board but I already have the drawings so I guess  it'll have to be another variation.
thanks for the wake-up!!!!
dave