Hint: We went to the Internet
and looked up battleships on a
search engine and found
pictures of real battleships and
printed off some we liked. We
used these pictures as our
guide to construct the
battleship.parts of a ship. Front is “bow”, rear is “stern”, left side is “port”, and
right side is “starboard”. If you’re interested in how these nautical
names came about visit this website for more information:
http://www.history.navy.mil/trivia/trivia03.htm.
I’ll give you some of the dimensions of the pieces we used on our
battleship to use as a guide, but remember to be creative with the scrap
pieces you have and come up with your own unique design.
(1) 2 x 6 x 24” This is the hull of the battleship(1) 1/8” dowel. This is for the smaller gun barrels, and
the top of the radar tower.(1) 3/16” dowel. This is for the gun barrels on the
large turrets.(1)5/8”dowel. Thisisusedonthepostsinthesternsectionofthe
ship.A piece of 2x4” was used for the base of the bridge as well as 2x3”
and 2x2”.Thegunturretsweremadefromvariessizesof¾”stockcutdownto
the sizes we needed.Some of the variouspieces of scrapwe used in buildingour battleship.