Meet the Makers - Model Display Table 7

Table 7 - Place 1

Model Owner: David O’Hearn

Model Builder: Royal Canadian Navy

Vessel: HMCS Sackville

Vessel Type: Canadian Flower Class Corvette

Scale: 72 scale

Builder: Saint John Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company Ltd.

Length: 62.5 m

Beam: 10 m

Displacement: 905 tons

Launch Date: 15 May 1941 commissioned 30 December 1941

HMCS Sackville served as an escort for North Atlantic convoys during WW2. In August 1942 Sackville fought a series of fierce actions escorting Convoy ON 115. Deprived of air cover by heavy fog, the convoy was attacked by two successive U-boat "wolfpacks"

off the coast of Newfoundland. Over a period of three days, HMCS Sackville attacked and severely damaged three U-boats and saved many convoy ships from damage.

Table 7 - Place 2

Model Owner: David O’Hearn

Model Builder: David O’Hearn

Vessel: HMCS Agassiz

Vessel Type: Canadian Flower Class Corvette

Scale: 48 scale

Builder: Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd., North Vancouver

Length: 62.5 m

Beam: 10 m

Displacement: 950 tons

Launch Date: 15 August 1940 Commissioned: 23 January 1941

This Corvette is a work in progress, and it is modelled at a scale of 48:1 which gives the model a length of 1300 millimetres and a beam of 210 millimetres.

HMCS Agassiz served as an escort for North Atlantic convoys in 1941 before transferring to the Panama Canal in 1942 then returning to the North Atlantic in 1943.

This model shows a work-in-progress and allows comparison with the same class of ship, HMCS Sackville, which is built in a scale two thirds the size.

Table 7 - Place 3

Model Owner: David O’Hearn

Model Builder: David O’Hearn

Vessel: HMCL Guardsman

Vessel Type: Customs Launch Guardsman Class

Scale: 20 : 1

Builder: HM Customs and Excise

Length: 23 m

Beam: 6.4 m

Displacement: Unknown

Launch Date: 1920

HMCL Guardsman is a model of a HM Customs launch from the 1920s. Its purpose was to catch smugglers red handed around the English coastline.

The model is made from a fiberglass hull and styrene and ABS superstructure.

The model is one of three constructed together by three members of the Association during 2024.

Table 7 - Place 4

Model Owner: David O’Hearn

Model Builder: Des Eustace (from a Sarik kit for St Cervia)

Vessel: Brigadier

Vessel Type: Empire Class Tug

Scale: 48 scale

Builder: J. Crown & Sons Limited, Sunderland (Yard No 206)

Length: 32.86 m

Beam: 3.8 m

Displacement: 268 tons

Launch Date: 2 September 1942

This tug is modelled at a scale of 48:1 which gives the model a length of 698 millimetre and a beam of 178 millimetres. The ship was called Empire Frank during WW2. After the war it was sold by the MoD to Steel and Bennie in 1946 and renamed Brigadier, working as part of their towage fleet until her loss in October 1960.