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Producer: Model Shipways

Code: MS2160

ARMED VIRGINIA SLOOP

Model Expo Kit No. MS2160

Length 31" / Height 22" / Width (across lower yard) 8-1/4" / Scale 1/4" = 1 ft. (1:48)

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Scale: 1/48

Length 31" / Height 22" / Width (across lower yard) 8-1/4"

 

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Price: 279 € incl. VAT

 

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Model Shipways Armed Virginia Sloop 1:48 Scale

by Model Expo Plank-on-Bulkhead Kit

Privateers were privately owned vessels whose owners were commissioned by the government to carry on naval warfare. Privateering is not considered piracy, which is performed without government authorization. During the 18th century, many small single masted ships were armed and used for privateering. These Chesapeake-built vessels were fast and easily maneuverable with a graceful sheer and a low freeboard. They evolved from the Bermuda sloops of c. 1740 and the trim, sharp Virginia schooners found in Steel s Naval Architecture of 1805.

Model Shipways' kit is based on a drawing found by nautical historian Howard I. Chapelle in European archives and reconstructed by John F. Millar, author of Early American Ships. The Armed Virginia Sloop from Model Expo has all the accuracy and detail seasoned modelers crave, yet it's

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