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Plank-on-frame do-it-yourself Lasercut Wooden Boatkit
Scale 1:100 - Length 147 cm (57.9 inches)
Parts in wood and brass (brass etching)
Full step by step instruction and plans
Warrior was designed and built in response to an aggressive French shipbuilding programme
which saw the introduction of the first iron-clad warship La Gloire designed by the brilliant naval
architect Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de Lome.
Determined to see off this challenge to the supremacy of the Royal Navy the then First Lord of
the Admiralty, Sir John Somerset Pakington, determined to build a ship so superior in terms of
quality, speed, size, armament and armour that it would be inconceivable to France that she
could take Britain on in a sea battle. When commissioned by Captain the Hon. Arthur Auckland
Leopold Pedro Cochrane, on August 1st 1861, Warrior was the largest warship in the world, at
9,210 tons displacement she was fully 60% larger than La Gloire.
The ship underwent minor modifications after a sea trial. In June 1862, she started active
service in the Channel Squadron, patrolling coastal waters and sailing to Lisbon and Gibraltar.
Having introduced a revolution in naval architecture, by 1864 Warrior was superseded by faster
designs, with bigger guns and thicker armour.
By 1871 she was no longer regarded as the crack ship she had once been, and her roles were
downgraded to Coastguard and reserve services. In May of 1883 her fore and main masts
were found to be rotten, and not considered worth the cost of repair, Warrior was placed in the
reserve, eventually converted to a floating school for the Navy and re-named Vernon III in 1904.
Put up for sale as scrap in 1924, no buyer could be found, and so, in March 1929 she left
Portsmouth to be taken to Pembroke Dock and converted into a floating oil pontoon, re-named
again as Oil Fuel Hulk C77. By 1978, she was the only surviving example of the 'Black Battle-
fleet' - the 45 iron hulls built for the Royal Navy between 1861 and 1877.
Source: http://www.hmswarrior.org
The Model:
The model is a beautiful "plank-on-frame" lasercut wooden ship, with brass canons, wooden
blocks, bras etching and a beautiful cast figurehead. The model is a replica of the actual ship
that lies in dry-docks in Portsmouth.
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