USS Vindicator

[ct ertz]

Here is a USN US Army ram, the USS Vindicator. It was 220 feet long and could do 20 miles an hour. She had 1 100 pounder rifle but smaller guns were added. The model will be in 1/250 scale and in waterline.

[jmr248]

This looks great. At this rate utilizing mortar boats and tinclads, we will us a real MS River fleet. Still gonna need some Pook Turtles.
Joe

[ct ertz]

I started research on those, so far vague. Do you have the names of the ships that fall into that club?
CT

[jimkrauzlis]

I gathered the Pook Turtles were the City Class ironclads:
City class ironclad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

According to the article, the seven gunboats in the class were named for cities on the Mississippi or its tributaries. They were: USS CAIRO, USS CARONDELET, USS CINCINNATI, USS LOUISVILLE, USS MOUND CITY, USS PITTSBURG AND USS ST. LOUIS (later remanded USS BARON DE KALB).

Hope this helps...Corey, you've made quite a superb fleet of vessels, and I always look forward to seeing your new projects.

Cheers!
Jim

[ct ertz]

Thanks jim.
I have the blue prints to the USS Cairo but I was holding off a bit. I am unsure how far along Avery is on this project. At one time he was working on the Cairo.
Corey

[ct ertz]

Rigging out the Vindicator. As far as I know this ship had no iron armor. I painted the hull in a coal tar gray, not sure what color this thing was originally.

[ct ertz]

Still working on making parts. I am kind of scattered between six projects right now.
CT

[jimkrauzlis]

Hi, Corey:

Found these photos, which you probably already have. Thought the cross beams between the smoke stacks was rather interesting in the middle photo.

Nothing I found comments on whether she had armor of any sort, and the photos don't suggest plating, at least from what I can tell, but who knows?

Cheers!
Jim

[ct ertz]

After some rework the parts are coming along and this will need a test build soon!

[Royaloakmin]

Looking good, Corey. I think likely unarmored too.