£500
HMS Sovereign Of The Seas - a museum quality scratch built large scale model of HMS Sovereign Of The Seas. The hull made of individually crafted sections of wood, the deck featuring numerous miniature details, lifeboats, canon to the hull, barriers, gilding work to the rear, a hand-made figure head, and a large amount of rigging. Mounted on a detachable stand. This model was the result of several years painstaking work by our client, who spared no expense in making it. Generally in excellent undamaged condition. Measures approx: 100cm long. Magazines included.
Sovereign of the Seas was a 17th-century warship of the English Navy. She was ordered as a 90-gun first-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy,[1][4] but at launch was armed with 102 bronze guns at the insistence of the king. She was later renamed Sovereign under the republican Commonwealth, and then HMS Royal Sovereign at the Restoration of Charles II.
The elaborately gilded stern ordered by Charles I of England meant enemy ships knew her as the "Golden Devil". She was launched on 13 October 1637, and served from 1638 until 1697, when a fire burnt the ship to the waterline at Chatham.
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