This high quality, highly detailed, expert level, Harvey model is Brand New, fully assembled and ready for display (not a kit). The sailboat model is built exactly to scale as the original Harvey Baltimore Clipper was with many details. The task required skillful craftsmen hundreds of hours to accomplish. The Harvey was built in 1847 in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed as a Baltimore Clipper, she was a very fast topsail schooner working out of the port of Galveston Texas.
At the turn of the Century, she was making several voyages a year between Galveston and the ancient Jewish port of Jaffa which at the time was still under the Ottoman empire. Her main cargo was hemp used to make ropes for the rigging of ships.
The Baltimore Clippers were topsail schooners or brigs with raked masts and sharp deep hulls that allowed them to sail close to the wind. They were originally used as slaves and light cargo vessels, but their speed made them ideal privateers. In the War of 1812, sailing under Letters of Marque the Chasseur commanded by Captain Thomas Boyle captured 45 British merchant ships. The Chasseur was later nicknamed the "Pride of Baltimore" and a replica of her sails today and can be seen in Baltimore.
35" long x 26" tall x 8.3 wide. Ready to display, not from any sort of kit.
Hundreds of hours were required to finish this model sailboat by skillful craftsmen and artisans. Individual wooden planks used in hull construction using plank-on-frame and plank on bulkhead method. Highly complex rigging with varied thread gauge, hundreds of blocks and deadeyes. Figurehead, cannons, anchors, bell, propeller and other fitting made from metal and/or brass. Solid wood base and brass nameplate included.Missing and lose parts are not considered damaged or defected. We will send you extra parts with instruction.
The actual items colors may vary from colors shown on your monitor. Listing pictures were taken from prototypes.
Item(s) in stock might slightly different from the listing pictures. There are no two models looks identical. The item "Harvey Baltimore Clipper Tall Ship 35 Built Wooden Model Boat Varnish Assembled" is in sale since Thursday, December 24, 2015. This item is in the category "Toys & Hobbies\Models & Kits\Boats, Ships\Wooden". The seller is "atlantisgift" and is located in New York.
This item can be shipped to United States.