Reuben Carpenter Fonds

The Reuben Carpenter fonds
The fonds consists of 37 photocopied blueprints of vessel plans and designs drawn between 1964 and 1988 by Capt. Reuben Carpenter (1912-2001), a shipbuilder of Port Union, NL. The plans were drawn for the Carpenter's Shipyards Ltd. at Port Union and the Clarenville Shipyard in Clarenville. Included are line drawings, profile plans, and construction plans of fishing vessels. Thirteen drawings were discarded in 2011 when it was decided they were poor duplicates of several of the 37 drawings.

The original blueprints were borrowed from Carpenter by Bob Halliday, who loaned them to the MHA for copying in July 1995, with Carpenter's approval. A second set of blueprints was borrowed from Captain Carpenter by the archive for photocopying in September of the same year.

The drawings are arranged as follows:

BP-001.001 - Construction plan of a 45' fishing vessel, 1978.
BP-001.002 - Lines plan of a 45' fishing vessel, 1978.
BP-001.003 - Profile plan of a 45' fishing vessel, 1978.
BP-001.004 - Plans of spar ironwork for a 45' longliner, 1975.
BP-001.005 - Plans for bilge pumping arrangements for 45 & 39' longliners, 1980.
BP-001.006 - Lines plan of a vessel, for Fred Noble, 1964.
BP-001.007 - Lines plan of a fishing vessel.
BP-001.008 - Construction plan of a 115 ton fishing vessel, 1964.
BP-001.009 - Profile of fishing vessel.
BP-001.009a - Drawing of the vessel "Philip E. Lake"
BP-001.009b - Drawing of the vessel "Philip E. Lake"
BP-001.010 - Rudder drawing of a 38' fishing vessel, 1979.
BP-001.011 - Lines plan of a 38' motor fishing boat, 1978.
BP-001.012 - Profile plan of a 38' motor fishing boat, 1978.
BP-001.013 - Proposed construction plan for auto, foot passenger & freighter, 1964.
BP-001.014 - Line plan for passenger and car ferry, 1964.
BP-001.015 - Rudder drawing for 53' fishing vessel, 1981.
BP-001.016 - Construction plan for a trap skif longliner, 1984.
BP-001.017 - Profile plan of a 53' fishing vessel, 1980.
BP-001.018 - Layout plan of deck, fish hole, engine room and forecastle, 1980.
BP-001.019 - Lines plan of a 53' fishing vessel, 1980.
BP-001.020 - Plan of engine room, steering compartment and fuel tanks of 60' fishing vessel, 1987.
BP-001.021 - Plan of engine room, steering compartment and fuel tanks of 60' fishing vessel, 1987.
BP-001.022 - Plan of engine bearers and a table for a 60' wooden fishing vessel, 1987 and 1988.
BP-001.022a - Table of outside dimensions for a 60' wooden fishing vessel, 1988.
BP-001.022b - Plan of engine bearers for a 60' fishing vessel, 1987.
BP-001.023 - Construction plan of deck and pilot house for a 60' fishing vessel, 1987.
BP-001.024 - Deck house and forecastle layout of a 60' fishing vessel, 1988.
BP-001.025 - One line drawing of a 60' fishing vessel, 1987.
BP-001.026 - Rudder drawing for 60' fishing vessel, 1987.
BP-001.027 - Lines plan of 60' fishing vessel, 1988.
BP-001.028 - Profile plan of a 60' fishing vessel, 1988.
BP-001.029 - Construction plan of a 60' fishing vessel, 1988.
BP-001.030 - Lines plan of a fishing vessel, 1964.
BP-001.031 - Construction plan of a 119 ton coasting vessel, 1964.
BP-001.032 - Engine room layout of a 60' fishing vessel, 1987.
BP-001.033 - Construction plan of a 65' fishing vessel.

(Copyright restrictions apply. The archive provides copies only for the purposes of research and private study. The recipient of the copies is responsible for contacting the copyright holder if the material is to be published.)