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Spanien

Mon Dec 03 2012, 09:15pm

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A brief history

The Frigate Santa Mónica was launched in Cartagena in 1777.
Built following the original plans of Francisco Gautier she had 34 guns and a length of 161 feet and 548 tons.
During 1778 she was send to the action off coast Algeria, fighting the Algerian pirates in the area under the command of Captain D. José de Miranda. The following year, under the command of D. Manuel Núñez Gaona, she joins the expeditionary force of Antonio de Ulloa to the Azores Islands.

After several actions in the area, was taken as a prize after a fierce fight by the HMS Pearl. It was driven to Portsmouth where it was refitted during 1780 and joins the Royal Navy under her original name.

In December of this year, was commissioned under the command of Captain John Linzee to Jamaica.
On April 1st, 1782, while pursuing an expeditionary force of American ships around the British Virgin Islands, struck four times on a submerged rock and immediately bilged. The hold filled with water and the casks began floating about. Linzee put five pumps to work and forty hands began bailing with buckets. The ship was going down and Linzee decided to beach her on a nearest beach where he was able saved most of the stores above the main deck as well as the guns. Only one man was lost in the action.

The Model

The built will be at 1/48 scale in European pear wood. I will follow the same system of Edward Tosti or Allan Yedlinsky used for their wonderful build of the Naiad or Euryalus.

The plans

They are being developed by my friend Fermín Urtizberea, based on the following sources:

- The original plan of the NMM of Greenwich, made upon her arrival at Portsmouth in 1780.
- The original scantling rules of 1769 by Francisco Gautier, builder and designer of the Santa Monica. It is a small book, typical of Spanish ship builders where all the necessary wood pieces were detailed and draw.
- The excepcional comparative tables of the book: “José Romero Fernández de Landa, un ingeniero de marina en el siglo XVIII” of José María de Juan-García Aguado, Universidad de La Coruña, 1998.

Saludos,

Spanien

Spanien

Mon Dec 03 2012, 09:18pm

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Some initial progress with the building table.

Spanien

Winston

Mon Dec 03 2012, 09:56pm

winston

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Spanien,

That building table alone would make for a nice project. Nice job.

Gene Bodnar

Mon Dec 03 2012, 10:26pm

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Spanien,

Very nice.

Gene

Mike 41

Mon Dec 03 2012, 11:10pm

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Spanien,

Nice job on the table it should work quite well for you.

Mike

Spanien

Thu Dec 06 2012, 10:18am

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The Main gantry and some plans.

Spanien

Don

Fri Dec 07 2012, 01:46pm

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Spanien,

Very nice building table. What are the basic dimensions? The the size of every model is different, but the proportion of the whole unit look good and stable which can be adapted to any size.

Spanien

Fri Dec 07 2012, 04:10pm

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Thank you very much all of you for the compliments.

Don: the table dimensions are:

1,20 m = 47.24 inches long
0.50 m = 16.69 inches wide

Cheers,

Spanien

P.S. The table plans are available if somebody need it. Just send me a private message.

[ Edited Fri Dec 07 2012, 04:11pm ]