Free Downloadable High-Resolution Ship Plans
Starting Point for Scratch-Built Ship Model Building
All the the plans offered on The Model Shipwright and The Model Shipwright blog are available on this site in high-resolution files. The images on the blog posting are linked directly to the page here with the downloadable files, or you can search from this page by ship type, ship name, or the historical period in which it was built. We put a lot of work in tracking down these plans, and in some cases digitized them ourselves and put in time cleaning up and repairing the images to make them more useful. Feel free to use them for your modeling projects, but please don’t just take them to repost on your site. We have digitally watermarked them to identify them as coming from this site.
Ship Type
Motor Vessels
Ships for which the primary motive of propulsion is an engine
Vessels for which
the primary motive
of propulsion is sails
Vessels for which the primary motive of propulsion is rowing
Ship Use
We offer plans of U.S. Coast Guard vessels ranging from early sailing cutters of the revenue service to modern motor vessels such as the buoy tender White Sumac.
Ships whose primary purpose is warfare are cross referenced on this page, whether motor, sail, or oar-powered vessels
Ships whose primary purpose is cargo transport are cross referenced on this page, whether motor, sail, or oar-powered vessels
Ships whose primary purpose is to serve the maritime industry, such as pilot vessels, tugboats, or lighters are cross referenced on this page, whether motor, sail, or oar-powered vessels
How detailed are your plans? Can you email me one page showing it?
You can download the plans directly from the website. Go to the page of plans you want, and left-click on the plan image to open the image file. Then right-click on the image and choose “save image as” to download it to your computer. The plans can be opened with any image-editing or preview software. Save it to a removable drive and you can take the drive to a local copy shop to be printed on their large-format printer.
Do you accept donated paper plans? I may thin out my collection.
Send us a message on our contact page, we’re always looking for submissions!
WAGB -10 or WAGB-11 Looking for plans. Can anyone help? Thx
I have a set of some 200+ plans for WAGB-10, what are you looking for?
Ton I am looking for pg 1 and pg 2 of the plans for the baltimore 2 1:64 scale
I am looking for drawings of below main deck layouts of 1700-1800 “Man of War” ships. Do you have any?
Check out our page on the French Man of War Montebello It has several views of the below decks.
does anyone know where I could get plans for a VLCC oil tanker /?
I have some GA plans for some tankers, what are you looking for?
I am looking for the typical or average hull ratios: beam/lenght, beam/keel, beam/depth, beam/draught, tonnage, displacement, and burthen of the various types of Ships during the age of sail. Any recomendations?
One of the best experts on the subject was Howard Chapelle. He probably answers the question in one of his many books on sailing ships.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_I._Chapelle
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Anyone know of a source for plans for the Steamer Eastland, that capsized in the Chicago River in 1915?