Lately I've been attempting to draw all of the roller ships that there are available image references or specifications for, and while doing research on the Knapp Roller Boat I came across this odd little vessel proposed during WWI to serve as a littoral sub chaser. Most likely inspired by the SS Er...
Here's the WWI era concept for a coastal sub chaser utilizing a variation on the Bazin design. It has a reverse tricycle layout that from the side makes it appear like a strange piece of farm equipment. I might draw it in FD scale as well since the reference I have is good and I had to cut out some ...
I found that same image on a site that claimed that it was the design meant to transport Queen Victoria to Canada, something which I need to verify first before I draw it. The cutaway image does show what appears to be a rudder jutting out from the hull and it seems the cargo rotates with the outer ...
I'm not sure how the ship would have been steered or how it would have exhausted smoke from its engines (I'm really unsure about this since this is an upscaled version of a real prototype). The first version of the prototype did have funnels, but they were removed on the other two rebuilds of it. Th...
Yes, these are the front views. I could do the side views and modify the template to fit them. I'm unsure of whether the sides would have been open like on the prototype Roller Boat or if they would have been closed off. It's likely they would have been closed off with what would amount to hangar li...
The more I research the designs I plan on drawing the more weird ships I find along the way. I stumbled upon this peculiar car carrier yesterday named the MV City of St. Petersburg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_City_of_St._Petersburg What's odd about it is the semi-spherical bow that's designed t...
Thanks. They look more like gigantic grain silos than they do ships. Had they been built they would have been the largest ships in the world at the time and would hold the record as the ships with the widest beam at 800 feet wide. I have to thank eswube for turning me towards the oddities of maritim...
Firstly are the two enormous Knapp roller ship concepts. I had no images to go by for these, only the description of them being upscaled versions of the Knapp Roller Boat as it appeared in 1898, designed to fit these dimensions (800 feet long and 200 feet high). I do hope that will not bar them from...
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