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Handcrafted, scratch built and ready
made. Absolutely nothing to do, except to remove from their boxes!
This ship model is available in blue (original colour) or red.
Dear Mr Lal
SOS arrived yesterday and I am very
impressed. I would like to consider expanding my "fleet.
The beauty about them is almost poetic.
Buyer of the Sovereign of the Seas at London Boat Show 2003
Thank you for confirm my order. Although I am not able to tell you where
and how I found your web, since I've been browsing all the world to find
a proper one for me in the past few days,
I have lost memory of where and how I
got there. But one thing I can tell you is, I have looked all internet model
ship seller. USA, CA, South A. Russian, Vietnam... Finally, I believe I found
this one is for me.
In term of quality, pricing, service.. thank you for your
letter, I believe this model will be a satisfaction. I look forward to receive
it in the near future.
Liu Yu Shian ,Buyer Sovereign of the Seas (Taiwan Sep 06)
Please click here for a ship model of the Sovereign of the Seas in our silver range.
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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