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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A block design model of the ?Ville de Paris? (1795), a 110-gun, three-decker ship of the line. Despite the name, the ?Ville de Paris? was not a French prize but was built in Chatham Dockyard and named after the French flagship captured at the Battle of the Saints in 1782. Begun in 1788, it was the first British 110-gun ship, following a trend towards larger ships started by the French. It succeeded HMS ?Victory? as St Vincent?s flagship in the Mediterranean fleet in 1797?99, and then in the Channel Fleet. It served successively as flagships for Admirals Cornwallis, Gambier, Collingwood, Fremantle and Keith between 1800 and 1815. It was broken up in 1845.
The model is of the block type, much simpler to make than the Georgian model of the period, and therefore more useful in preparing a design and showing it to the Navy Board and Admiralty. This is a relatively late example of this type of model. The figurehead is left as a block but some of the stern carvings are reproduced. The decks are not revealed but the channels that support the rigging are shown.
CA: BAB. Referenced in Anderson's catalogue (1952) to the Royal Naval Museum Catalogue (1913), pg 24, Edinburgh Room, No 1 Case, No 1, 'H.M.S. Ville de Paris, 110 guns, 2351 tons. Built at Chatham yard in 1795'.
Despite the name, the ?Ville de Paris? was not a French prize but was built in Chatham Dockyard and named after the French flagship captured at the Battle of the Saints in 1782. Begun in 1788, it was the first British 110-gun ship, following a trend towards larger ships started by the French. It succeeded HMS ?Victory? as St Vincent?s flagship in the Mediterranean fleet in 1797?99, and then in the Channel Fleet. It served successively as flagships for Admirals Cornwallis, Gambier, Collingwood, Fremantle and Keith between 1800 and 1815. It was broken up in 1845.
caption: Ville de Paris 1795 - starboard broadside
caption: Ville de Paris 1795 - bow three quarter
caption: Ville de Paris 1795 - stern quarter | 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 Ville de Paris (1795) blocks models (representations) South Kensington Museum Naval Models Catalogue | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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