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Spanish Galleon Ship Model 37"Lpad

Spanish Galleon Ship Model


Spanish Galleon Ship Model 37"L
hcmspa37padRetail Price: $499.00pad

Our Price: $349.00 (You save 30%)pad

Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days.

measures: 37"L x 28"T x 12"W

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High castles fore and aft and multiple decks of guns bring to mind the large galleons with lofty sails and graceful lines that transported the riches of the New World to Spain. Yet, the original galleons used to explore the lands across the oceans rarely surpassed the size of a modern-day offshore fishing boat. The galleon was an armed merchant ship during the era of Spanish exploration and trade (1565 to 1815).

Spain needed seaworthy ships capable of making transoceanic voyages while laden with vast cargoes, but early sea vessels lacked these qualities. Designers borrowed the best characteristics of existing ships to build just such a vessel. From the caravel came the fixed rudder and lateen sails. From the carrack came the sturdy hull and fore and aft castles.

The result was the galleon, which combined square and lateen sails rigged on three or four masts with a longer ratio of length to beam and castles more integrated with the structure of the ship. The treasure fleets faced many obstacles; the two greatest of which were weather and pirates.

Ship Model Description:
  • Ship Measures 37”L x 28”T x 12”W
  • The Spanish Galleon model is shipped to you completely assembled and ready for display
  • Plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the hull one at a time)
  • No plastic fittings (metal anchors and machine turned brass cannons)
  • Masterfully stitched thick canvas sails that hold their shape and do not wrinkle
  • This wooden ship model rests perfectly on a large marble base between four arched dolphins
  • This Spanish Galleon ship model is entirely handmade piece by intricate piece by skillful and experienced master craftsmen, using the plank on frame construction method - kits are not used in building
  • The following rare, high quality woods are used to build our Spanish Galleon model:
    Cherry
    Apamate
    Birch

    Maple
  • Handpainted the actual colors of a typical Spanish Galleon
  • Thick, handsewn canvas sails that hold their shape and cannot wrinkle
  • Exhaustively researched and historically accurate to the actual tall ship
  • All of our wooden model ships are built according to scale through original plans, pictures and drawings
  • The finished Spanish Galleon ship model is carefully inspected for quality and accuracy numerous times before final packaging



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