£1,500 - £2,500
A 1:48 SCALE ADMIRALTY-STYLE MODEL OF THE 'COMET'-CLASS BOMB KETCH GRANADO, ORIGINALLY BUILT AT HARWICH [1742]
the 24in. hull framed below the ebonised main wales and planked and pinned above, chainplates with deadeyes, decorative gilt quarter lights and stern decorations, classical giltwood figurehead of Mercury, anchors with bound stocks, bowsprit, stovepipe, belfry with bell, swivel guns and main armament in carriages, mortars in beds before main and mizzenmast with sliding covers, partially planked decks, companionways and other details, mounted on brass columns to baize-covered display base contained within wooden case with Plexiglass and specification plate -- 22 x 43 x 19in. (56 x 109 x 48cm.)
Built by John Barnard at Harwich with a burthen mass of 268 tons, Granado was only 91ft long but armed with 13in. mortars supplemented by twenty guns of small calibre, which could pack a useful punch when correctly deployed. She was rarely out of service and alternated between service as a sloop and bomb ketch, but it was as the latter she came into her own and she saw service in North America; was at the attack on Martinique and, with Dragon (74), bombarded the forts at Havanna prior to the landings in 1762, being paid off in 1763. She was so strongly built that she enjoyed a twenty-year post-naval career as a merchantman and whaler before being wrecked as a transport under charter to the British Government in 1783.
Fine overall condition
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