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Maritime Museum Association of San Diego
Filipe Vieira de Castro Texas A&M University Annalies Corbin
The PAST Foundation Joe Flatman
University College London Paul F. Johnston
National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution I. Roderick Mather University of Rhode Island Waldemar Ossowski Polish Maritime Museum Joseph K. Schwarzer North Carolina Maritime Museums William H. T iesen United States Coast Guard Historian’s Offi ce Atilla J. Toth National Offi ce of
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Vol. 64, no. 4 winter 2019 “Advancing ship modeling through research”
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 FEATURES
Scratch building a 1:48-scale Flower-class corvette on a Fleetscale hull, Part 7: The mast and rigging; completing HMCS Chicoutimi .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 By Bruce LeCren
The Continental Navy frigate Raleigh in a bottle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 By Alex Bellinger
Reliance—historic, revolutionary and offshore patrol cutter namesake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 By William H. Thiesen
Building a nave model: His Majesty’s Ship Godspeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321 By Ron Neilson
The heavy cruiser USS San Francisco CA-38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 By Chuck Bauer
Royal Oak: A 1:48-scale model of the 74-gun ship launched in 1769 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351 By Magnus McLeod
Neptunia No. 295 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Thoughts on bending wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 By Steve Wheeler
COLUMNS SHOP NOTES
Serving lines and rigging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 By Richard Bohlman
Making wooden thimbles or rollers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 By William E. Sproul
TIPS & TECHNIQUES
Cleaning brass parts for blackening, plating or painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 By Kurt Van Dahm
Making eyebolts with round eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 By Steve Wheeler
LETTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 ADVERTISER INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 BOOK REVIEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 MORE BOOK REVIEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
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ON THE COVER: The quarterdeck of Alex Bellinger’s 1:246-scale model-in-a-bottle of the Continental Navy frigate Raleigh. Photograph by the builder.
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