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Amerigo Vespucci Ship Model Kit 2
Mantua Model Group have been producing
period model boat kits since after the war and were the first company to innovate
and use the cutting ability of laser beams to produce very accurate and high
quality products.
Mantua are also based in Italy and are also able to supply
very high quality fittings and building materials for the model boat
builder.
Famous Italian navy school ship, planned by Lieutenant Francesco Rotundi following the trends of sailing war vessels. She was launched in 1931 at the Navy's ship yard of Castellammare di Stabia, Naples.
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 Ship Model Kit 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.
Please click here for the Amerigo Vespucci Ship Model Kit 1
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