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158 - A FINE 1:384 SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE 32-GUN FRIGATE PALLAS [1791]
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A FINE 1:384 SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE 32-GUN FRIGATE PALLAS [1791] modelled by P.S. Reed, the 5in. carved hull with planking and sheathing, open gun ports with guns and red lids, polychrome figurehead, decorative stern, planked deck with detailed fittings as appropriate including suite of five assorted boats over well deck, capstan, rigged double helm, gratings, pump, etc., bound masts with standing and running rigging, full suit of lined paper wind-filled sails and main mast streamers, ebonised yards with s'tun'sl booms and other details, depicted sailing on a calm green sea within glazed wooden case with brass plates -- 8¾ x 13 x 8½in. (22 x 33 x 21.5cm.) The second RN ship to bear the name, this Pallas was the name ship of a Class of three designed by John Henslow in 1791 produced to use spare shipbuilding capacity. They were the first and only 32-gun Royal Navy frigates designed to be armed with the eighteen-pounder cannon on their upper deck, the main gun deck of a frigate. Pallas was ordered in 1790 from the Woolwich yard, but not completed until 1794, and was wrecked off Cawsand Bay, Plymouth on 4th April, 1798 with no loss of life. Fine overall condition, one line of rigging detached, one other parted.
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