Mantua Models Sergal Sovereign of the Seas 1:78 Scale Wooden Model Ship Kit
This beautiful ship was commissioned by King Charles 1st and designed and built by Phineas Pett. She was launched in 1637 and set the design of ships for the next 200 years. No such lavish display of ornamentation had ever been seen before or since and the cost was astronomical.
A plank on frame construction, the kit contains:- Building plans with general details, English instructions, lost wax brass castings, walnut or lime planking, wooden masts and spars, brass and walnut fittings, etched brass details, rigging cord. All sheet ply sections are laser cut for accuracy. A full colour poster is provided with the kit to show the beauty of the finished model.
Scale 1:78 Length 1100mm
HMS Sovereign of the Seas was a 17th century
British Royal Navy first rate ship of the line of 100 guns, later
known as just Sovereign and then Royal Sovereign. It was built by
Peter Pett (later a Commissioner of the Navy), under the guidance
of his father Phineas, the King's master shipwright, and was
launched at Woolwich dockyard on October 13, 1637. As the second
three-decked first-rate (the first three-decker being Prince Royal
of 1610), she was the predecessor of Nelson's Victory, although
Revenge, built in 1577 by Mathew Baker, was the inspiration
providing the innovation of a single deck devoted entirely to
broadside guns.
She was the most extravagantly decorated warship in the Royal Navy,
completely adorned from stern to bow with gilded carvings against a
black background, and the money spent making her, £65,586,
helped to create the financial crisis for Charles I that
contributed to the English Civil War. Charles had imposed a special
tax, the "Ship Money", to make possible such large naval
expenditure. The gilding alone cost £6,691, those days the
price of an average warship. She carried 102 bronze cannon (Charles
explicitely ordered such a high number) and was thereby at the time
the most powerfully armed ship in the world. Until 1655 she was
also exceptionally large for an English vessel; no other ships of
Charles were heavier.
Sovereign became leaky and defective with age during the reign of
William III, and was laid up at Chatham, ignominiously ending her
days by being burnt to the water line as a result of having been
set on fire either by accident, negligence or design.
The Sergal kit of the Sovereign is every bit as magnificent as the
original. Authentic detailing includes 675 solid bronze ornamental
pieces to adorn her stern, decks and hull -- each cast individually
by the lost wax method. The hull is double-planked in basswood and
walnut, and all wooden parts are laser cut for a perfect fit.
Blocks and deadeyes are pre-finished walnut. Other fittings are
brass, copper and cast white metal. You'll arm your vessel with 102
burnished metal cannon, and rig her with several diameters of
seized cotton line. Eight sheets of plans are accompanied by a
comprehensive instruction book. A full colour poster is provided
with the kit to show the beauty of the finished
model.
A very impressive kit that every boat modeller wants to build!
Specifications:
Scale 1:78
Overall Length: 1100mm
Overall Width: 435mm
Length of Hull: 960mm
Width of Hull: 180mm
Height: 865mm
Planking: Double
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