O Scale Kit: C.R. LAMB Sternwheeler Ship

O Scale: C.R. Lamb Sternwheeler Ship
Custom Ship Name Available, Please See Below

NOTE: If you would like a custom ship name, please ensure you select the "Custom Ship Name" option (just above the quantity to order)

O Scale Kit: Assembly and finishing required
Waterline model

This model is truly museum class. It is the most detailed and complete kit we have ever built. While definitely not a beginners kit, you will find the comprehensive instructions and well thought out design will make this a fun and rewarding project to complete.

The Arrow Lakes Lumber Company commissioned the construction of the CR Lamb in 1907 for $23,000. She was built by G.B. Ward, a boat builder from the Maritimes, working in Kamloops.

The hull was 94 feet long and twenty feet wide, with a draft of four feet. The vessel had two 34 horsepower engines made by the Schaake Machine Works in New Westminster for a gross weight of 192 tons.

She spent more than two and a half decades serving the logging company and residents of the Shuswap Lake before being bought by Captain William Louie. He ran the boat well into the 1930’s providing cargo carriage, passenger services and even moonlight cruises and dances on-board. C.R. Lamb was decommissioned in 1936, her hull filled with gravel and now rests underwater in the Thompson River at the end of 8th Avenue in Kamloops BC.



As an interesting aside to the C.R. Lamb story, Captain Louie who had captained the CR LAMB for 15 years and then bought the CR LAMB and continued service into the 1930's with the boat, was of Chinese decent, but born in Canada. He took a lot of flack from government and press when he forced the Waterways commission to keep the opening span bridge working on the Thompson River long after the government had deemed it not necessary for shipping traffic. He was somewhat of a unspoken legend in these parts, keeping the steamboat working well past its prime. He even converted the upper deck of the ship to a dance floor and had bands and parties under the stars on the lake. Wow, that must have been a great time!

This ship is typical of the many that saw their way around the lakes, rivers and coastal systems of North America at the turn of the 19th century. She would be at home on any logging railway or in support as a ferry or cargo boat supporting your railway as part of the extended transportation network.

Supplied Kit Components:

• Simplified plank on frame hull
• Detailed resin cast/ 3D printed engines (2)
• Detailed resin cast boiler
• Detailed resin cast lifeboats with laser cut wood and 3D printed fittings
• Laser engraved siding and deck boards
• Wood railings
• Underside and interior framing in all exposed areas
• Main deck louvered door in open or closed position
• Detailed parlor room and wheelhouse interior
• Many 3D printed detail parts including fire buckets and axes, life rings, whistle, searchlight, capstan, valves, sight glass, telegraph, ships wheel, navigation lanterns…
• Interior, deck and navigation lighting with LED strips and prewired micro LEDs
• Added interior detailing and furniture
• Incredibly detailed paddle wheel
• Kit assembly instructions

OPTIONAL CUSTOM SHIP NAME $30.00
Personalize your sternwheeler with the ship name of your choice

If you choose to have a custom ship name, the following additional items will be supplied with your kit to allow you to show your ship name on the sternwheeler;

• Your ship name on waterslide decals (used on each side of the ship, bow plates and life rings)
• Custom laser engraved name plates on basswood with your ship name (used on each side of the captain's cabin)

If you choose this option, please enter the ship name of your choice on the order comments during checkout, or email us the name at [email protected].

Size:

• Length 25.5” (bow to stern)
• Width: 5.5”
• Height: 9” (from waterline to top of smokestack)