P.O. Box 581
Craigsville, WV 26205
by Duane D. Borchers, Sr.
phone: 304-742-5464
Resin Ship Model Kits from Yankee Model
Works:
Resin Sub Models & Parts from J&D
Procuctions
Books:
Naval
History and Military History: U.S. vessel
armaments during the Mexican War era--Confederate ordnance for the land service,
I've also included 143 line drawings by Brevet Major Alfred Mordecai, U.S. Army,
from an 1849 U.S. Army Ordnance Manual--U.S. naval ordnance of the Civil
War--Revenue Cutter
Service during the Spanish-American War--U.S. Coast Guard
Cutters to England, Lake class (Lend-Lease)
--ALSO--
the
following ship plans (engineering drawings &
histories), are in book
form, in a 11"x17" format
--World
War I Destroyers, Bainbridge, Hopkins, Lawrence,
Paul Jones, Stewart, Truxton, Smith,
Paulding,
Roe [2 screw], Roe [3
screw], Monaghan, Cassin, O'Brien,
& Tucker classes--
--World War II Destroyers, Samson, Caldwell, Farragut,
Maham, Somers, Benham Sims & Gridley classes--
--World War II Submarines, Guppy IIA conversions--
--USS K-1 class hunter/killer subs--
--USS Grouper class hunter/killer sub--
--USS Requin class radar picket subs & USS Tunny
(SSG-282) Gato class missile sub--
Mackerel class boats: Mackerel and Marlin.
Tambor
class boats: Tambor, Tautog, Thresher, Triton, Trout,
Tuna, Gar, Grampus, Grayback, Grayling, Grenadier
and Gudgeon.
Sargo class boats: Sargo, Saury, Spearfish,
Sculpin, Squalus, Sailfish, Swordfish, Seadragon,
Sealion, Searaven and Seawolf.
Salmon class boats: Salmon, Seal, Skipjack,
Snapper, Stingray and Sturgeon.
Perch class boats: Perch, Pickerel, Permit, Plunger,
Pollack and Pompano
Shark class boats: Shark and Tarpon
Porpoise class: Porpoise and Pike--
--Cachalot (SS-170) class--
--Argonault (SM-1), V-5 and V-6
classes--
--Neosho, Navasota, Mattaponi, Mission
Buenaventura and Escambia
class oilers--
--Raven and Auk class minesweepers--
--Destroyer
Escorts, Evarts, Edsall & John C. Butler
classes--
--High Speed Transports, Crosley class (TEV) conversion, Wickes hulled
APD's (Colhoun
class), Clemson hulled APD's, (Brooks
class)--
--Destroyer Minelayers (DM), Stribling class--
--Destroyer
Minesweepers (DMS), Dorsey class--
--Destroyer Seaplane Tenders (AVD &
AVP), Childs class--
--Atlanta
class, Brooklyn
class, Cleveland
class, Des Moines
class & USS Los Angeles (CA-135) cruisers--
--USS Omaha class Scout cruiser and USS Galveston and USS Providence class
guided missile cruisers--
-- Aircraft Carrier's USS Lexington class, USS Hornet, USS Yorktown, USS
Enterprise, USS Essex
(CV-9) class & USS Casablanca (CVE-55) class carriers--
--Two Haskell class attack transport book of plans, (APA-117 through
APA-247)--
--Westmoreland class attack transports--
U.S. Maritime Commission VC2-S-AP2 "Victory Ship" hull
conversions--
--Two volumes of U.S. Maritime Commission EC2-S-C1 "Liberty Ship"--
--Andromedia & Tulare class Attack Transports--
--Two World War I cook books and one World War II cook book-
--Hotchkiss two pounder mountain gun--
--.303 inch Maxim gun--
--German artillery, WW I--
--Poetry of the Spanish-American War--
New Stuff: 
Updated April 22, 2008
Ship Plans copied from
the National Archives: 
From the Colonial era to the
Civil War, for the modeler and historian.
Ship plans copied
from the National Archives: 
From Spanish-American War to present.
Ship Plans copied
from the National Archives: 
Submarines.
Ordnance Plans
copied from the National Archives: 
Military and Naval ordnance from the War
of 1812 era to the Spanish-American War.
Photos of ships
from the Spanish-American War 
Link
to Seaways' Ships in Scale magazine 
Link to
scale model, a site for static models, r/c models, model railroads &
supplies
U.S. House of
Representatives calendar 
Just what happened two hundred years ago this May? Funny you asked:
--Sec. of State James Madison wrote about conditions for ending embargo with
France--
--Capt. George Peter named senior captain of first light artillery company in US
Army--
--President Jefferson told Treasury Sec. Albert Gallatin to strictly enforce the
embargo--
--Boston residents voted to petition the President to repeal embargo--
--Meriweather Lewis wrote that Osage had attacked settlers in Missouri--
--John Graham notified Madison of account of Pike's expedition--
Sure sounds like picking up this Thursday's Nicholas
Chronicle.
Read about it, in this month's calendar!
Pictures of Hotchkiss guns:
3 pdr. Field Carriage
and 3 pdr. Limber.
