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MODEL SHIP WORLD ® “Advancing ship modeling through research” Vol. 71, No. 1 Spring 2026


“A Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2


Editorial FEATURES An armed colonial schooner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 By Alex Bellinger


T e Santos-Dumont No. 18 Hydroplane (1907). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 By Greg Davis


Scratch-building fi ve 1:24-scale models of H.L. Hunley, Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 By William Kammermeyer


Donald McKay’s clipper ship Glory of the Seas model completed by Rob Wiederrich and surprising developments from fi ſt een years’ research, Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37


By Richard Jones


Indus to the Gulf: T e trading dhows of the Indian Ocean, 1750-1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 By Ishraq Ahmed Hashmi


Types of ship and boat models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 By Robbie Zielemans


COLUMNS


SHOP NOTES Storing plans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 By William Kamermeyer


Two Helpful Tools for Rigging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 By Dan Pariser


Screw clamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 By Robbie Zielemans


Hanging a seventeenth-century rudder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 By Robbie Zielemans


Neptunia No. 320 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 ADVERTISER INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 BOOK REVIEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 MORE BOOK REVIEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96


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On the cover: Detail from “Sunrise: T e Glory of the Seas in St. George’s Channel” by Derek G.M. Gardner. Courtesy of Gladwell & Patterson, London and Stamford, UK.


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