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, as of 1 Jan 2024 material published before 1928 have moved into the public domain, and material published between 1929 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 them. Since then, I was able to get a copy of the 1928 edition of the Magoun book The Frigate Constitution and other Historic Ships that included a copy of his plans, the same as the ones I got from the MIT Museum, since as of Jan 1 2024, the plans from the book are in the public domain so I can include a copy of book plans here.

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 Hall’s 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

Sail Plan

Robert C. Brown for A. J. Fisher, Inc. about 1934

Hull & Deck Layout