Arizona Wiring Pictures?

Modeling Subjects Ships
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Im not sure what exactly they are called (those really long wires that stretch all along the ship and some have flags on them), but does anyone have a good picture that shows where all the wiring would go on the ship?

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There called Signal or Flag Halyards, and there ain’t a whole lot of pictures left .

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Well I dont need real pictures as in photos. Any picture that just shows where they go.

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here’s a link I found, it’s a model of the Arizona done up museum quality (they sell for 7,500 dollars they better be museum quality!!!) The closest ship I could find on Google was the USS Texas BB-35 (a musuem near me, the actual ship pics, not a model) which is a different class, but built within a few yrs of the Arizona and looks to have the same rigging as the model. Which lends a bit of credibility to the pics…

http://www.fineartmodels.com/e/model/ships/arizona/thumbs.htm

in all of them is pretty good detail of the rigging… (what the long wires and ropes in general are called)

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What you’re looking for is a rigging diagram…and each and every ship (even sisters) are different.

Ships are like women, get beyond their beauty, and they’re very complex and difficult to understand. You’ll have signal halyards, radio antenna, support rigging for masts and funnels, communications lines, and a variety of ropes and cables for everything from lifeboats to aircraft handling. And that’s just modern vessels…get into sailing ships and it becomes twice (nay, 3 times) as complicated.

What time period are you modeling specifically for your Arizona? If it’s something I have line drawings for, I can help with rigging diagrams. I think I have diagrams for 1918, 1921, 1937, and 1941 Arizona.

Jeff

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If its not to trouble could you post the 1941 diagram? And, the realllly long wires that strech across about half the ship, are those for the most part wire or rope?

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Those would be wire…in fact, with the exception of the signal halyards and mooring lines, there’s not going to be much rope aboard Arizona, especially any sort of rigging.

I’ll get the diagram together and scan it or photograph it.

Jeff

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Thanks alot. I really appreciate it.