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I
found your website through an extensive search using Google; I looked
an many other sites that also construct model ships, including the
Amerigo Vespucci, but I felt the most comfortable with your quality and
what you had to say about your product on the website. I have never
purchased a model ship before [this being my first] but it has always
been a dream of mine since I was a boy. I wait with great anticipation
to receive your work of art.
May I ask you one question before you begin construction? I see that
you offer the same model, for the same price, in a “painted” series and
I have opted for the partially painted series. In your professional
opinion what do you think looks the best? Perhaps that is an unfair
question to ask since I am sure that both are magnificent but I really
grappled with this decision and if you leaned towards the painted model
I would make that small change to my order.
I look forward to hearing from you. Very truly yours,
Donald Whittaker, The Designer Guy , Buyer of Amerigo Vespucci Model Ship (partially painted) (USA Jul 06)
Hi Rashid,
I must say, WOW! Very beautiful work. God will love you more for this.
Thank you, Jack Shemesh, GWCA Founder/Pres./Exec.Director (Swiss Buyer of custom made Amerigo Vespucci, 1 meter Golden Hind and 1 meter Mayflower, September 2005) Please click here for a ship model of the Amerigo Vespucci in our silver range.
Please click here for a painted ship model of the Amerigo Vespucci in our gold range.
Original
specifications: - Training vessel, L/B/D 82.1m * 15.5m * 6.7m, Hull:
Steel, Complement: 450, Built: Royal Shipyard, Castellamare di Stabia,
Italy; 1930.
In the late
1920s, the Italian navy began construction of two ships for training
their officer cadets at Sea, Cristoforo Colombo and Amerigo Vespucci.
The design chosen was that of a seventy-four-gun frigate, though they
had steel hulls and carried double top gallants, auxiliary power, and
other modern devices.
Amerigo Vespucci was named for the
Florentine explorer for whom the sixteenth century German cartographer
Martin Waldseemuller, named the newly discovered land masses to the
West.
Her full lines are in sharp contrast to the majority of sail-training
vessels. A letter from a Norwegian submarine commander having
encountered the two sister ships reads as follows:
“On breaking surface, I took a quick look around and got a shock. I had
gone down in the 20th century and come up again in the 18th century,
for there stood in front of me, two majestic men-of –war, under a press
of canvas and sailing proudly.
Following the Second World War, her sister ship was acquired by the
Soviet Union. Amerigo Vespucci resumed her sail-training mission for the Italian Navy well into the 1990s.
Underhill, Sail Training and Cadet Ships.
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