"Modern cruiser and carrier deck plans" Topic

Does anyone know where I can find deck plans or blueprints for any modern surface vessels or submarines? Either on the web or in print...

I'm specifically looking for bridge layouts and crew spaces, but if there was a place I could purchase the full deckplans for a Nimitz class carrier, Ticonderoga class cruiser, Los Angeles class submarine or other modern warship I'd be even happier.

I'm cross posting this to the Science Fiction board, since my ultimate goal is to build a more-realistic-than-usual starship deckplan, and I might not be the first to go down this path.

I think you're going to be out of luck on this. Anything that shows current ships' layouts is going to be unavailable as a security risk.

However, you can do an image search for deck plans - and aside from the various Traveller and Star Trek plans online - you'll find some plans for older vessels.

Here's an example

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Good luck

Wyatt

You might try here:

taubmansonline.com

There was also a similar company that used to specialize in modern plans, but I've lost the name and link as I've been out of the RC thing for a while. I'm guessing that a google for RC ship plans will bring him up without too much searching.

Excuse pleeze . Where iz your noocleer wessels ?

Remember what happened to Chekov ?

Thomas: By making this enquiry on a public message board, you are in violation of the US Patriot Act. All your base are belong to us.

Seriously, you won't find plans for the latest ships anywhere, but you might find some WWII plans somewhere. Taubman Plans is a good place to start, as Irishserb suggested.

There are also a bunch of museum ships and subs dotted all around the world. You could visit one of them and make some notes and sketches. I've been to the USS North Carolina battleship museum in Wilmington, NC, several times. It's a great self-guided tour, and you get to see everything from the captain's quarters to the galley to the engine room. Very neat.

Interesting. I suppose I hadn't fully considered the security issue, which does make some sense.

That said, Tom Clancy published the plans for about half of a Los Angeles class sub in his book, so there must be some flex in that rule.

How far back do I have to go to get deckplans then? WWII?

Any references for the crew space and layout, such as the bridge, CIC? Even photographs wold be a start. I've found a few in web searches, but it's a difficult thing to crqaft a search for.

Thanks for the replies.

Ahh, I missed a reply I see... I'll take a look at Taubman and see what I can find.

Thanks again

That said, Tom Clancy published the plans for about half of a Los Angeles class sub in his book, so there must be some flex in that rule.

Nope. The diagrams in 'Submarine' are all 'notional', meaning that while they give you a decent idea of what stuff might look like, it's not a floorplan or console image. The silent service is very, very closemouthed about the details.

Which is amusing, considering I used to flip through a book in the reference section of my local library that had intracate and highly accurate blueprints and technical drawings of nearly every modern aircraft in use today. IIRC, at the time it didn't include the F-117, but the
F-16, F-18, F-15, etc. were all there in unskinned glory.

Mayhap because we've sold F-18s to Austrailia, Spain, and I can't remember who else, F-15s to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and I can't remember who else, and F-16s to everyone except, well, maybe Syria.

We haven't sold any Los Angeles class to anyone. Same for F-117.

I'd look at some of the sixties-era ships we've sold to Taiwan, etc. You're more likely to get good info, and since their missile era ships (as opposed to gun-era ships) you'll get more of an idea of what a spacecraft would look like.

That is, if you can't live with the great Traveller and Star Trek material out there.

Andrew