Description :: |
Handcrafted, scratch built and ready
made. Absolutely nothing to do, except to remove from their boxes!
Details of Tribute model ships:
The innovative moulding process we specify to manufacture the hull of these display models enables us to include an incredible amount of intricate detail. We have put particular focus on improving the accuracy/scaling of the rigs and fittings such as anchors, cannons and longboats. They come supplied completely assembled ready for display, and accompanied by a history leaflet.
These display the same detailed hull models as the Tribute models, but without rigs and mounted in cases, for wall display. Sizes is that of the frame.
Original specifications:
(later HMS Sovereign, HMS Royal Sovereign) 1st rate 102 (3m), L/B 70.7m
* 39.8m, Hull: Wood, Armament: 102 guns, Designer: Phineas Pett, Built:
Peter Pett, Woolwich Dockyard, England, 1637.
In
1634, the ill-fated monarch Charles I informed the great English
shipbuilder Phineas Pett of his “princely resolution for the building
of a great new ship” as part of his overall effort to improve and
expand the English Navy. England enemies and concerns were many and
included the Dutch, her most serious rival in overseas trade, France,
Spain and North African corsairs preying on her vessels.
Built at a cost of Ł65,586, about ten 40-gun ships could have been
built for that amount; Sovereign of the Seas was intended as a
propaganda as well as war. The Royal Navy’s most lavishly ornamented
vessel, her decorations wee carved by the brothers John and Mathias
Christmas and described in a book by Thomas Heywood.
In fact, the ship-money tax levied by Charles for his Naval program was
much resented by “his faithful and loving subjects”, and is one of the
excesses that led to his overthrow and execution in 1649.
Under Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth, the ship was renamed Sovereign,
and following the restoration of Charles II in 1660; she was rebuilt
and renamed Royal Sovereign. During the Anglo-Dutch wars, she was
action at the battle of Kentish Knock in 1652, Orfordness (1666),
Solebay (1672), Schoonveld (1673), and the Texel (1673). After a
rebuild in 1685, she was at Beachy Head (1690) and Barfleur (1692).
Eleven years later, a misplaced candle set the ship on fire and she
burned at Chatham.
Heywood, His Majesty’s Royal Ship.
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