Takes me back 35 years or so!
My Krick U 25 started life that way.
Four slabs of wood 2cm thick about 110cm long.
Top 3 with a wide slot pre-cut in them.
Rough shape sawn using a hand fret saw.
Planks coated with waterproof PVA and bolted together using the threaded studs, previously araldited in place visible in the photos, to locate and hold them tightly together.
Then hours of work with grandad's old jack plane and, yes, a spokeshave!
Last time I used it, must still be in the cellar somewhere.
Mucho planing, shaving, sanding and checking with templates made from thick card🙄
Slabs are just visible in the pics of the engine room and Radio Room in the bow.
Happy days? 😁
Doug😎

Bread and butter hull construction. Built such a hull in the 1960's using similar tools. Still have HMS Wolverton in need of major restoration.
dave976

Hi all a nice reminder of the past, I have not used a spokeshave since I was at school. He looks to me like someone is telling him what to do for the benefit of the film maker!

The narrater of these sought of films always hangs on to any large number as a judgement of how hard it all was. Port holes? What about the detail and paintwork?

I remember ships like this being sailed in the 1950s over at the Highgate yachting pond (London). Usually Sunday mornings and I was dragged away by family. Very frustrating!

Transporting them was difficult as most did not have cars and they would be kept in the storage shed but a decade later the club gave up due to local vandalism.

Regards
Roy

Voice familiar to us yanks too. My Garcia n Creole Queen are my largest. This is my third time building to paddle wheeler. This one I won’t sell. When I was in Manchester years back the facilities guy took me to meet his modeling mates. They had RC wooden planes that were gigantic, I mean really big. I guess they did same on ships? These days my patience n attention span are less. In 1960 I lived with grandma in Brooklyn. I used my uncles vacant room. He had a closed made into work room. Large airplane kits were stored unused there. I started building some. Not very good at it then. He switched in later life to ships. Usually old vintage multi master with many sails. He is in his 90’s n still has patience to do them with all rigging n sails. Hope I can build some more big ships at that age. Loved the video btw👍

Impressive is all I can say. I can only dream of creating anything like the vessels that were shown. Thanks for sharing

That's real craftsmanship without a power tool in sight.
Thanks for sharing shipmate I can only dream of creating something that beautiful.
Cheers Colin.

Nick.
That’s brilliant to see.
What makes it doubly interesting for me if it’s the same ship is that RMS Caronia was a Cunard boat (one of four of the Saxonia class) and my Uncle was the 2nd Engineer on her and also her sister ships,Saxonia and Carinthia.
He is long since passed,but would love to have seen that model.
He also took me on a tour of the engine room in Liverpool in the late 50’s.
Thanks for sharing.
Regards
Bill.