Item  #  B1603

Baltimore Clipper - Harvey 32"

• 32" long x 9" Wide x 24" High (1:56 scale).  10 Lbs.
• Amazing details – tied down deck cannons, planked deck with nail holes, cannon ball racks, buckets, barrels, authentic lifeboat, rudder chains, flag lockers, and more.
• Hollow-hull/plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the hull one at a time).
• Built with rare, high quality woods such as walnut, cherry, rosewood, teak, birch and maple.
• Perfectly taught rigging with varied thread color and thickness.
• 10 masterfully stitched, thick canvass sails that hold their shape and do not wrinkle.
• Meticulously hand painted to the actual Harvey.
• Machine turned brass cannons and metal anchors.
• Amazing details – tied down deck cannons, planked deck with nail holes, cannon ball racks, buckets, barrels, authentic lifeboats, rudder chains and more.
• Rests perfectly on a large wood base between four arched dolphins (marble base pictured).
• To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as the original plans, drawings, paintings and pictures.

The Baltimore Clipper is one of the best known sailing vessels in existence today, with its rakish silhouette distinctive from a distance. The Baltimore Clipper has been involved in privateering, piracy, smuggling, slave trading, and there are a number of modernized Clippers sailing today on both coasts of America.

Originally known as a Virginia-built boat, the fast and lean craft that was built at Fells Point and other locations evolved over time, emphasizing speed, Weatherly sailing abilities, and handling over everything else. A Baltimore Clipper type can best be defined by extremely tall and raking masts, very little rigging, low freeboard, great rake at both the stem and stern, with the keel featuring a great amount of drag from front to rear. A Baltimore Clipper features a great deal of dead rise, and slack bilges. They had a decent amount of beam for their length and were flush-decked for easy handling of guns and sails.

Influenced by the French lugers and their refined construction methods, as well as the deep and powerful Bermuda sloops with their incredible windward abilities, the early Baltimore Clippers were used by the American navy during the Revolution with great success. They were so far in advance of their times that there was no comparison with other vessels of the same time. Whenever the Royal Navy managed to capture a Clipper, the Royal Surveyors would take their lines off for study and use them in building the Royal Navy's series of experimental brigs