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Description: | Scale: 1:96. A contemporary block model of the Prince Regent (1814), a 56 gun two-deck Fourth Rate Frigate. The Prince Regent was built in Kingston Dockyard by Master Shipwright John Goudie. She was renamed Kingston on 9 December 1814.
Dimensions on the Gun Deck 155ft 10 inches.
The underside of the baseboard has a plaque erroneously inscribed "Psyche 32-56 guns 1814 Frame prepared at Chatham and completed at Kingston on Lake, Ontario. Dimensions Gun Deck 130ft Beam 36ft 7" Scale (?) Rated as a 32 gun frigate but actually carried 56 guns on two complete decks". Psyche (1814) was a smaller two-deck (or spar-deck) warship ordered in 1813.
CA: AAB.
caption: Prince Regent (1814) - starboard broadside
caption: Prince Regent (1814) - starboard three quarter view
caption: Prince Regent (1814) - port quarter view | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum blocks Prince Regent (1814) models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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