Wingfield Castle?

[Eddy Matthews]

Does anyone know where I can get drawings, preferably including hull lines, of the Humber ferry Wingfield Castle?

Any help would be appreciated....

Regards
Eddy

[ancoaster78]

Hey Eddy,

If you havnt already tried, my first port of call would be the Hartlepool Maritime Experience, the current operators.

It would certainly make an interesting model, a great ollow on from your William Wallace car ferry!

If you do find out where to get plans, please let us know!

Cheers, Andy

P.S.S. Wingfield Castle
Hartlepool's Maritime Experience,
Jackson Dock,
Maritime Avenue,
Hartlepool,
TS24 0XZ

Tel: 01429 860077 Fax: 01429 867332
Email: info@hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com
Web: www.hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com

[mjt60a]

Walter Snowdon sent me a plan of Tattershall Castle last year, maybe he'd have one? (or TC would do instead, only difference I can see is TC has 6 windows across the wheelhouse, WC has seven...)

[Eddy Matthews]

I think I must be cracking up!! 

I went through all my paddler plans and found a set for the Wingfield Castle -At least a general arrangement drawing, so all I need now are some hull lines....

I'd forget my head if it was loose!!

Eddy

[djcf]

 hi Eddy
Do you have a scale in mind for the wingfield castle model? Am I right thinking she carried cars on her after deck?....would be a nice sailing companion for Sir William Wallace....East coast paddlers 

Clark

[Eddy Matthews]

Hi Clark,

it would be nice to build it at the same scale as the Sir William Wallace ( 1:32 ), but at that scale the Wingfield Castle would be 78" long and 21" over the sponsons..... Which is too big for my knackered back to cope with!

So if I go ahead it would have to be at 1:48 scale....

Yes it did carry vehicles.

Eddy

[Mercury]

Eddy,

Not sure about the Wingfield Castle but you may be able to get hold of plans for the Lincoln Castle in the Langmuir Collection at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. I know that the Lincoln built by A&J Inglis was different but I think Graham Langmuir collected a pretty complete set of plans for the Inglis paddlers if you're willing to go for the quasi-sister.

[mjt60a]

....at that scale the Wingfield Castle would be 78" long and 21" over the sponsons..... Which is too big for my knackered back to cope with!....

Yes, it does make a rather large and heavy model at 1/32 scale, I filled this hull with concrete blocks and the paddles barely touch the water 

[Walter Snowdon]

 Eddy, try Jake Dale at the Darlington Club, he has built Wingfied Castle at 1/48th scale and I am pretty certain he has a set. I am almost certain i have a set with a fair amount of detail but at 72nd scale. walter.

[Allan T Condie]

I had GA drawings of Wingfield and Lincoln that I got from Sealink in Harwich years ago.   Sadly I passed them on and wish I hadn't now. One point is that the state of Wingfield Castle as preserved is that as she was never in service as such.  The companionways to the promenade deck have been altered.   All three ships were originally two class and as such the Tat and Wing had three companionways up to the promenade deck, and Lincoln's buffet was originally divided down the centre line - that's why after the partition was removed there were two stairways going in opposite directions from the buffet up to the main deck.  Tattershall Castle has been so messed around that anything there cannot be taken as correct.   I built models of Lincoln and Wingfield but both have been passed on elsewhere a while ago.   If anybody needs more detailed information on any of the three contact me as I knew them well.

My models started in final condition but were eventually backdated to their original condition.