Shipbucket

Thanks all, now for what would be a solid contender for the RAN's smallest commissioned vessel, Riawe which is the second oldest floating vessel to have ever served as of 2021. Named HMAS Riawe during WW2, she was derisively known as HMAS Ridiculous as her 9t displacement only afforded her a .303 Vickers and small arms, she would patrol the approaches to the Tamar River during the war including an alleged underwater contact which she most likely was attacking a whale. She would go on to be used as a rescue craft and target tug as well until 1944 when she was returned to her former owner who was also her wartime skipper. Converted into a fishing boat she is still afloat in South Tasmania as of writing in good condition.





more to come in her post-war configurations

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Excellent additions!

Nothing special, just an update (repaint + changes to few minor details) of my very old work (which can be still seen on the page 5 of this thread).

USA, US Coast Guard 40-foot Utility Boat

SY Opty

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Nice work with the Opty!

And now something completely different... a dredger. Probably Shipbucket's first-ever.
A number of such dredgers were built in the Netherlands, at Werf Conrad in Haarlem at the end of XIX and beginning of XX century for waterways administrations of various rivers of the Russian Empire, including Dneper, Volga and Wisła.
As usual with such vessels, source material is far from perfect, but I tried to to my best.

Russia, Dneprovskaya 5-ya

Excellent work eswube, I think this might be our first dredger.
Very well drawn to your usual high standards for a small vessel.

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A small, but long-lived riverine tugboat Kormoran was built in 1898 at R. Holtz Dampf-Boot & Maschinen-Fabrik in Hamburg for Königlische Weichsel-Strombauwervaltung (Royal Prussian Wisła Water-engineering Administration) of Danzig (Gdańsk). It was 14,32 meters long, was originally powered by a 60 hp double-expansion steam engine and primarily serviced dredging equipment, between 1902 and 1906 being based at Thorn (Toruń) and then back in Gdanzig. In the inter-war period it was used by Wasserstrassebauamt Elbing (Elbląg) and Wasserstrassebauamt Marienburg (Malbork) until sunk in December 1944. In 1945 it was raised, inspected and declared repairable. As Sławomir (popular male name) it was refitted at Państwowy Warsztat i Stocznia Pleniewo (State Workshops and Shipyard at Pleniewo) with 105 hp diesel engine (of unknown type) and in late 1946 assigned to Państwowy Zarząd Wodny (State Waterways Administration) branch in Malbork. In 1951 transferred to Rejon Dróg Wodnych (RDW, Waterways Area administration) in Elbląg ,and then briefly to RDW Toruń and later RDW Gorzów Wielkopolski in 1954. In 1958 Sławomir was deeply rebuilt and equipped with 135 hp CZNM Škoda 3L160 diesel engine, after which Sławomir was attached to RDW Szczecin, but still homeported at Gorzów. In 1965 it was donated to Liga Obrony Kraju (National Defence League - mass paramilitary organization) as a training ship, which used it until around 1980 when it was struck off the register. Then it was put ashore as a monument and was becoming increasingly derelict, until in 2011 group of enthusiasts initiated ships reconstruction (I have to admit I'm uncertain at what stage it currently is, but I know that significant shipyard works were so far made).

Unfortunately I couldn't find a good ("drawing-sufficient") pictures of Sławomir in the post-war, modernized form (it had heavily rebuilt superstructure) except in the on-shore derelict condition.

Germany, Kormoran, 1915

Very nice ships, eswube.

Excellent drawing, B! I think that this little vessels are extremely demanding, and don't forgive to much, if any mistake. And your little steamers are fantastic!

Thanks for kind words!

Frankly, I'm not horribly satisfied with how some of these smallest vessels turn out in SB scale - that's why I started doing some of them in FD as well (Kormoran will be posted soon too).