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H.M.S. Leopard

Scale: 1:100

Dimensions: 38" (L) x 12" (W) x 31" (H)

( Limited Edition. Truly a masterpiece! )

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100% Scratch Built

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Details of the Model:

  * High quality woods including teak, black wood, rosewood and light ebony

  * Light canvas and rigging (lightly waxed)

  * Magnificently handcrafted deck details and superb hand carvings on stern

  * Silk flags

This item is for an exquisite 1:100 scale model of the HMS Leopard, with details including bound masts, yards with stun's'l booms and foot ropes, carved full sails running and standing rigging with carved scale blocks, dolphin-striker, safety nets, carved fiddle-end prow with coat-of-arms, anchor with chains and hawse pipes, catheads, bitts, stove pipe, sail winch, belaying rails and pins, companionway, helm and tiller, ship's bell and other details. The planked hull with open gun ports with metal guns, pressed stern and quarter gallery decoration boarding companionway and rudder is copper sheathed below the waterline and finished in black.

Local pick up is available, sales tax of 8.25% applicable in Texas.

Item is shipped within ONE business day after receiving payment.

HMS Leopard was a British 50-gun 4th rate involved in the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair. She was built in 1775 at Portsmouth Dockyard and finally launched in 1790 from Sheerness. In early 1807, a number of British and American sailors deserted their respective ships, then blockading French ships in Chesapeake Bay, and joined the crew of the USS Chesapeake.In an attempt to recover British sailors (or possibly to press American sailors into the service of the Royal Navy), Captain Salisbury Pryce Humphreys hailed the USS Chesapeake and requested permission to search it. Commodore of the Chesapeake, James Barron, refused, and the Leopard opened fire. The former surrendered, and Humphreys boarded to search for deserters. Three Americans and a British sailor were captured and hanged at Halifax. Though many subsequently believed the affair to be a prelude to the War of 1812, at the time it did little more than strain diplomatic relations between the United States and Britain.In 1812, the Leopard was converted to a troopship. On June 28, 1814, she was en route from England to Quebec when she grounded on Anticosti Island in heavy fog.  The ship was destroyed but none of those on board were lost.

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