Goto Predestination — Peter the Great's 1700 Warship Model, L60 Painted | Admiral Line
Goto Predestination — Peter the Great's 1700 Warship Model, L60 Painted | Admiral Line
How big is it?
Length about 60 cm / 23.6 in. Drawn to scale; the model outline is a simplified shape.
Model details
- Size
- 23.6 in / 60 cm
- Materials
- Brass, Linen sails
- 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.
- T326
The 60 cm hull in painted finish — which is how she would actually have looked leaving Voronezh in 1700, rather than as a study in joinery.
Paint and bare wood answer different questions. Unpainted, the model shows how it was built. Painted, it shows what the ship was: a turn-of-the-18th-century warship in Dutch-influenced livery, with gilded carving standing off a coloured hull instead of blending into it.
Specification
- 60 cm plank-on-frame hull, hand-painted
- Gun ports with cast cannon and painted port surrounds
- Carved and gilded stern gallery and quarter galleries
- Three masts and bowsprit with full hand-knotted standing and running rigging
- Hand-stitched linen sails on every yard
- Ship's boats, capstan, wheel, anchors and rudder
- Solid wood base with engraved brass nameplate
- Fully assembled
History
Goto Predestinatsia — "God's Foreknowledge" — was launched at Voronezh in 1700, a 58-gun ship of the line drawn by Peter the Great after he had spent two years working anonymously as a shipwright's labourer in Holland and England. She was the first such vessel designed and built in Russia without foreign oversight, and a deliberate statement that the country no longer needed it.