Flying Cloud plans
I have posted copies of the
plans for the Flying Cloud that I could find and that are not covered by
copyright or by a do not distribute agreement. Under U.S. copyright law any material published since 1977 is
automatically covered by copyright, material published before 1926 have moved
into the public domain, and material published between 1926 and 1977 are
covered by copyright if they were published with a copyright notice. (See here for
more information.)
In addition some material which is not covered by copyright can not be posted
because a holder of the material only releases copies after the receiver agrees
to abide by a publication restriction.
The MIT Museum requires such an agreement before they will sell someone
copies of the Magoun and White plans
which were published well before 1977 and published without a copyright
notice. The MIT Museum also
requires such an agreement before they will sell you a copy of the McKay lines
drawn in about 1860, which is well out of copyright based on when it was
published.
I purchased copies of these
plans from the MIT Museum and agreed to the restriction, so will not publish
copies of the plans I got from the MIT Museum.
Luckily, copies of some of
these plans are available from other sources. I will post copies if I can obtain unencumbered ones.
Some museums take a different
approach. For example, the Penobscot Marine Museum gave me
permission to publish a copy of Henry
HallŐs Notebooks
for shipbuilding in the United States, 1881-1883 - Volume II, Models and Measurements, dated March
24, 1883, which I obtained from their collection.
The plans I have posed here I purchased myself, borrowed from friends or obtained from the archives of the USS Constitution Model Shipwright Guild I believe they are all in the public domain. Please contact me if you disagree.
Scott Bradner -
sob @ sobco.com
Likely C. G. Davis
for Horace E. Boucher Manufacturing Company
Hull, Lines
and Deck - 1928 (blueprint)
Rigging
- 1928
BlueJacket Shipcrafters
Hull,
Lines and Deck - 1974 - A. Montgomery updating
C. G. Davis
Rigging -
unknown date but found with 1974 Hull, Deck and Lines plan
George Douglas -
published in The Rudder, Volume 35 - 1919, pages 531-533.
Lines - copy
of the McKay lines
Robert C. Brown for A.
J. Fisher, Inc. about 1934
Henry Hall in Report
on the ship-building industry of the United States, 1884
Lines & Sheer
- appear to be a copy of the McKay lines
Popular Mechanics - unknown date,
likely before 1928
Popular Mechanics - 1928
James Tate, "Build This Model of Flying CloudÓ - reprint from the 1928 Popular
Mechanics series
2021-06-09