1799 USS Essex Tall Sailing Ship Model 32 Handcrafted Wooden Ship Model, 34 L

  
It's huge, and so impressive. Handcrafted from scratch using finest woods & metal fitting. New in Crate / Box. The first USS Essex of the United States Navy was a 36-gun or 32-gun sailing frigate that participated in the Quasi-War with France, the First Barbary War, and in the War of 1812. Essex was armed with mostly short range carronades that could not hope to match the range of 18 and 24 pounder naval guns. She was launched on 30 September 1799. On 17 December 1799 she was presented to the United States Navy and accepted by Captain Edward Preble. Congress was dismasted only a few days out, and Essex was obliged to continue her voyage alone, making her mark as the first US man-of-war to double the Cape of Good Hope, both in March and in August 1800 prior to successfully completing her convoy mission in November. The story was first published in 1854 in Putnam's Magazine. Patrick O'Brian adapted the story of Essex's attack on British whalers for his novel The Far Side of the World.