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PAGE l10, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBERI17,'1982, WHITBY FREE PRESS Biritiesh Naàvy is alive and< wellanlingi Wib John Mc(reacly's basement looks lllke the British Navy's last hurrah. Where else can you find the Queen Eliza- beth I and Il, the British Destroyer Javelin and a host of smailer warshibs a in one place? Only in Whitby, you say. McCready, a retired electrician, has spent more than 40 years per-- fecting the art of model shipbuilding. His crea- tions are exact replicas of- the- originals, right down to furnittire in the state rooms and a deck pool - filed with water to boot.à McCready, a native 0~ ScotIancI who emigrated to Canada in 1951, ser- ved as an electrician when the Queen Eliza- beth I was being built at' John Brown Shipyard in Clydesdale, Scotland. Ini Canada, he worked for the Dunlop and Fire- stone Companies.' "For a year I was in the power station right underneath the crane," McCready says. "Sitt- ing under there you see the thing get built from scraps 0f iron, and it turns into a beautiful. sbip." At was right-after the, Q.E. I was' launched that McCready decided to.try bis hand at build- TYPE WR ITE RS ADDING MOCINES 0. CALWuLATORS1 SALES ý* SERVICE . RENTrALS, = R"ý1' a%) O FCESPLE lt's~~ ~~ a porda whn e an 1heLpe.L~~omer" le ing her himself. "My first boat looked filce a streetear," Mc- Cready says. "But you get better, and you learn ways of doing tbings. " H'.iis particular craft 18 unqiue, because he builds 'the shipe' from metal plates just like the originals. Most model 'shipbuilders work in plastie or wood, but McCready's desire for, perfection and exactitude led him to use metal. His latest creation, the .Queen Elizabeth II, is more than six feet long and weigbs about 37 pounds. It too k hlm nearly 1,200 hôurs to build, meti culously creating the frame'from copper wire, cutting hundreds of metal plates and soldering them together. Before deciding to build a ship, McCready writes to travel com- panic, trying to get posters showing the dimensions of the ships. Some of- the plans be draws from books, on warships. From there, it's a matter of scaling the size down and making cardboard patterns for each metal' plate. Originally, -McCrea dy used -rivets to piece together the plates, but' later found soldering rWe need a few good boys and girls! theft or loss. Most of bis big ships are powered witb car fan motors and operate by remnote control. Last, summer, he gave the eilîdren in bis Cochrane' Street neighbourhood a treat bygiving the ship a run in a neighbour's pol. a The ships are fully ligbted and run on a motorcycle battery. "You have no idea of the' technical problems," says Mc- Cready. "That's the fun Of i.$ Wben he sails the Q.E. II, he bas to put lead weights in for ballast. In 1966, McCready began building a replica of the H.M.S. Ajax, the British warship after which the town of Ajax was named. Af ter spending more than 1,600 hours on the model, McCready tur-, ned the ship over to the town of Ajax for display., His next sbip is in the early stages of plann-, "I'd like to build, the Royal Yacht, but* I'v e stili got to get the plans for it," says McCready. "But if I build'many more ships, we'll bave to move to a bigger bouse." CITRUS SALE Henry Street High Scbool's annual citrus sale is currently in pro- gress. Oranges arle $14 for the small. box; $24 for the. large box. Grapefruit cost $12'for the small box; $21 for tbe large., 1 If you. wisb to order fruit, please phone John CLEANERS SAME DAY SERVICE ALTERATIONS AND REPAIRS soi f le bel acg as f lbi eitl col col coi w ii jj~'Regardiess of the stains may, cause ~j U~'9 manufacturing pro- color changes. Expo- cess, drycleanIng Is sure to atmospherlc the best method of gases can tarnish the METLLCS care. metal. MEALISK & M Cleaners and 3. 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Wben. a travel com- pany borrowed the Q.E. Il for a promotional stunt, they insured it for $15,000 against damage,