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A FINELY PLANKED AND PINNED SCALE MODEL OF H.M.S. BELLE POULE (1765)
modelled in fruitwood with ebony keel, cannons run out, finely-carved rampant lion figurehead, stern and glazed quarter galleries, anchors with bound stocks, chain plates with deadeyes, bitts, cleats, capstan, belfry, well deck with suite of open craft, companionways, double helm, bound cut-away masts and other details, mounted on turned-brass columns within brass-bound glazed display case. Overall measurements -- 24 x 49½ x 16½in. (61 x 126 x 42cm.)
Built as La Belle Poule in Bordeaux, she was a 36-gun frigate of just over 900 tons and crewed by 254 men. When hostilities broke out with England, La Belle Poule fought a long and furious duel with the Arethusa. When Arethusa’s main mast fell she was forced to withdraw, however the action was so famous, for a brief period ladies of the French Court wore a ship in their hair in the so-called ‘Belle Poule Style’. It was not to last, however, and she was captured by the Nonsuch on 14th July 1781. Re-fitted at Portsmouth and absorbed into the Royal Navy as Belle Poule where she remained for twenty years until broken at Sheerness in 1801.
£3000-4000 242.
A DETAILED WOOD AND METAL SCALE MODEL OF THE FAST PATROL BOAT H.M.S. BRAVE SWORDSMAN (1958)
with detailed fittings as appropriate including twin Bofors guns, four torpedoes, superstructure with bridge controls, loosely mounted on a cradle stand, model measurements -- 17 x 48in. (43 x 122cm.)
The Royal Navy abandoned the idea of large scale coastal forces in 1957, so only two Braves were built for the Royal Navy. These deployed three gas-turbine engines (trialled in the Bold Class) to produce 52kts (60mph) - the fastest craft ever produced by the RN. Designed to be used as either Motor Gun Boats or Motor Torpedo Boats, this model is in the latter formation with two Bofors and four torpedoes. Brave Swordsman and her sister Brave Borderer were retired in 1970.
£400-600 243 (part) 79 242 243. ERIC DYKE (BRITISH, 1930-)
Warship profiles for the cruiser H.M.S. ‘Devonshire’ (1904) and the monitor H.M.S. ‘Abercrombie’ (1942) Signed ‘Eric Dyke’ (lower right) Watercolour and pencil 9 x 17in. (23 x 43cm.) Framed and glazed (2) £150-250
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