Nightmoss
01-17-2016, 15:07
I was digging around on the Internet today looking to see if I could track down some reliable online ship plans for 18th and 19th century US ships. I found one website where they offer National Archives plans as reprints, but without some reliable images I'm not likely to place orders sight unseen. http://marylandsilver.com/Ship.htm
19280
Consequently, I tried searching the Archives directly using images on the web. Clearly if you have access to the physical collections you can have them make copies although I don't know if they're from microfilm or in house prints?
Here's the Record Hierarchy I found for one USS Constitution sail plane that came up on the web:
Record Group 19:
Records of the Bureau of Ships, 1940 - 1966 Series:
Ship Design and Construction Drawings, 1862 - 1909 Item:
USS Constitution, Outboard Profile with Sail Plan, 1817
The image can be found here:
https://research.archives.gov/id/5956232
More images are showing up, but not some of the US ships I see listed on that website above. Those I'd like to see include the USS Pennsylvania, USS Independence, USS Franklin, etc. I wish there was more content available online? In any case here are some other images you might enjoy viewing:
https://research.archives.gov/search?q=*:*&rows=20&offset=0&tabType=all&facet=true&facet.fields=oldScope,level,materialsType,fileFormat,locationIds,dateRangeFacet&highlight=true&f.parentNaId=564989&f.level=item&sort=naIdSort%20asc
Cheers!
19280
Consequently, I tried searching the Archives directly using images on the web. Clearly if you have access to the physical collections you can have them make copies although I don't know if they're from microfilm or in house prints?
Here's the Record Hierarchy I found for one USS Constitution sail plane that came up on the web:
Record Group 19:
Records of the Bureau of Ships, 1940 - 1966 Series:
Ship Design and Construction Drawings, 1862 - 1909 Item:
USS Constitution, Outboard Profile with Sail Plan, 1817
The image can be found here:
https://research.archives.gov/id/5956232
More images are showing up, but not some of the US ships I see listed on that website above. Those I'd like to see include the USS Pennsylvania, USS Independence, USS Franklin, etc. I wish there was more content available online? In any case here are some other images you might enjoy viewing:
https://research.archives.gov/search?q=*:*&rows=20&offset=0&tabType=all&facet=true&facet.fields=oldScope,level,materialsType,fileFormat,locationIds,dateRangeFacet&highlight=true&f.parentNaId=564989&f.level=item&sort=naIdSort%20asc
Cheers!