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'Seahorse’, 38-gun frigate, 1794. Scale: approximately 1:32. Capstan support from a model which, according to the writing on the side of the hull, was made from part of the mainmast of the French flagship ‘L’Orient’ which blew
1798
National Maritime Museum

'Seahorse’, 38-gun frigate, 1794. Scale: approximately 1:32. Capstan support from a model which, according to the writing on the side of the hull, was made from part of the mainmast of the French flagship ‘L’Orient’ which blew
1798
National Maritime Museum

'Seahorse’, 38-gun frigate, 1794. Scale: approximately 1:32. Hatch coambing from a model which, according to the writing on the side of the hull, was made from part of the mainmast of the French flagship ‘L’Orient’ which blew
1798
National Maritime Museum

'Seahorse’, 38-gun frigate, 1794. Scale: approximately 1:32. Hatch coambing from a model which, according to the writing on the side of the hull, was made from part of the mainmast of the French flagship ‘L’Orient’ which blew
1798
National Maritime Museum

'Seahorse’, 38-gun frigate, 1794. Scale: approximately 1:32. Hatch cover from a model which, according to the writing on the side of the hull, was made from part of the mainmast of the French flagship ‘L’Orient’ which blew up
1798
National Maritime Museum

'Seahorse’, 38-gun frigate, 1794. Scale: approximately 1:32. Polythene bag with 7 various parts from a model which, according to the writing on the side of the hull, was made from part of the mainmast of the French flagship ‘L’Orien
1798
National Maritime Museum

'Seahorse’, 38-gun frigate, 1794. Scale: approximately 1:32. Seat with staircase from a model which, according to the writing on the side of the hull, was made from part of the mainmast of the French flagship ‘L’Orient’ which
1798
National Maritime Museum

'Seahorse’, 38-gun frigate, 1794. Scale: approximately 1:32. Seat with staircase from a model which, according to the writing on the side of the hull, was made from part of the mainmast of the French flagship ‘L’Orient’ which
1798
National Maritime Museum

'Seahorse’, 38-gun frigate, 1794. Stand for a model which, according to the writing on the side of the hull, was made from part of the mainmast of the French flagship ‘L’Orient’ which blew up at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
1798
National Maritime Museum

Foudroyant (1798); Warship; Second rate; 80 Guns. Scale: 1:48. A block model of the ‘Foudroyant’ (1798), an 80-gun, two-decker ship of the line. A block model was much simpler to make than the typical Georgian model of the period, and therefor
1798
National Maritime Museum