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HMS Surprise 38"

Item  #  A1602

HMS Surprise 38"
 
  • 38" long x 12" Wide x 29" High (1:66 Scale).  25 Lbs.
  • A limited edition version available with a real copper plated hull, not painted on.
  • Amazing details: planked deck with nail holes, tied-down cannons, barrels, buckets, cannon ball racks, rudder chains, and more.
  • Meticulously painted to the actual HMS Surprise.
  • Masterfully stitched, thick canvass sails that hold their shape and do not wrinkle.
  • Metal anchors and turned brass cannons.
  • Advanced rigging techniques with over 200 blocks/deadeyes.
  • Perfectly taught rigging of various colors and thickness to ensure authenticity.
  • Authentic lifeboats - not flat bottomed.
  • Requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
  • Built with rare, high quality woods such as cherry, walnut, oak, birch and maple.
  • The model rests perfectly on a large marble base between four arched metal dolphins.
  • To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship.
 

HMS Surprise was a 38-gun frigate of the Hebe Class of the Royal Navy, although all these Fifth Rate frigates were re-classed as 46-gun under the general re-rating of February 1817, from when cannonades on the quarter deck and forecastle were included in the rating. She carried a complement of 284 officers and ratings, and a primary armament of 28 eighteen-pounder guns on her upper deck, with 8 nine-pounder guns (and 6 32-pounder cannonades) on her quarter deck and 2 nine-pounder guns (and 2 more 32-pounder cannonades) on her forecastle.

The Surprise was ordered on 10 April 1809, and her keel was laid down at Milford Dockyard in Pembrokeshire in January 1810. She was launched on 25 July 1812, and sailed round to Plymouth Dockyard to be completed. Fitting out took place between 9 Augustand 1 December 1812, and she was commissioned in September 1812 under the command of Captain Sir Thomas John Cochrane, sailing for the West Indies on 19 December 1812. She measured 150 feet 4 inches on the gun deck, with a breadth of 40 feet and a half-inch, and a depth in hold of 12 feet 9 inches, giving a tonnage of just over 1,072.
     
     
 HMS Surprise 38" $449.95
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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