Sovereign of the Seas — 1637 Warship Model, No Sails (Bare Rigging) | Admiral Line
Sovereign of the Seas — 1637 Warship Model, No Sails (Bare Rigging) | Admiral Line
Model details
- Materials
- Mahogany, Western red cedar, Rosewood, Brass
- Construction
- Plank-on-frame, built by hand
- Condition
- Fully assembled, ready to display
- Display
- Wooden base with brass nameplate
- Collection
- Tall Ship Models - Admiral Line
- Item no.
- T077N
With the canvas struck, the carving takes over — which for this ship is the point.
Sails are beautiful, but on Sovereign of the Seas they hide the thing that made her famous: an entire hull sheathed in gilded sculpture, from the beakhead lion to the four tiers of the stern gallery. Bare-rigged, none of it is obscured.
Construction
- Plank-on-frame hull in western red cedar, rosewood and mahogany
- Deep-carved, gilded stern gallery, quarter galleries and beakhead figure
- Three gun decks with cast cannon and carved gunport wreaths
- Three masts and bowsprit with complete hand-knotted standing rigging
- Bare yards — no sails fitted
- Ship's boats, capstan, wheel, anchors and rudder
- Solid wood base and engraved brass nameplate
- Fully assembled
A bare-rigged model also takes noticeably less shelf depth than a full-sail version and casts a cleaner silhouette against a wall.
The ship
Launched at Woolwich in 1637 for Charles I, 102 guns, the most decorated warship ever built. The tax raised to pay for her helped trigger the English Civil War. The Dutch called her the Golden Devil. She burned in 1697.