Sovereign of the Seas Tribute Model
Handcrafted, scratch built and ready
made. Absolutely nothing to do, except to remove from their boxes!
This Model will be in stock early January 2012.
Item arrived - fast shipping - not damaged -
perfect transaction - will buy again!!
Greetings from the Flamish part of
Belgium.
Both parcels have arrived and both
were in excellent condition. Worth the wait!
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 65,586, 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 Navys 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 is faithful and loving subjects, and is one of the
excesses that led to his overthrow and execution in 1649.
Under Oliver Cromwells 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.
CM 7635
