I was just rechecking my links before OrangeCon (I finished the USS Commodore Perry last night), and I found that "m" has been busy:
http://www.myspace.com/mmpapermodels "Newly commissioned" are the USS Coeur de Lion and the US Army Troop Transport Maple Leaf. The Coeur de Lion was a tiny sidewheeler, formerly a lighthouse tender. Yet it truly possessed the heart of a lion, capturing or destroying many blockade-running schooners, and even engaging Confederate shore batteries. It also once towed the converted barge George Washington Parke Custis with Professor Lowe's observation balloon -- the world's first aircraft carrier. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/coeur-dl.htm The Maple Leaf was a former Lake Ontario excursion steamer, and her wartime career was somewhat ignominious. (When transporting Confederate POWs, the Maple Leaf was taken over after the prisoners discovered that the guards' muskets were unloaded! Most of the POWs escaped in the lifeboats, and eventually rejoined their units.) Her moment of fame arrived 124 years after she sank in Florida in 1864, taking with her the equipment and personal items of the 112th New York Volunteer Infantry. The perfectly-preserved artifacts made the Maple Leaf wreck one of the most significant Civil War "time capsules" ever recovered. http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/civilwar/articles/mapleleaf.aspx http://www.mapleleafshipwreck.com/ Congratulations to m on capturing in paper two lesser-known, but very significant Civil War ships! David T. Okamura --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
