Maris Stella HMS Speedy 1782 Sacle 1:48 (with Sails & Copper Plates)

Scale: 1:48

Length: 36.3″

Speedy has been heavily
researched. The Maris Stella kit version of HMS Speedy uses the sail plan,
rigging, armament and flagging as of her original commissioning. To maximize
authenticity, we have freshly designed all cannon, carronade and swivel guns
for the three kits, each of the type, weight and time frame appropriate, using
Armstrong and Blomefield construction formula, historical patterns and photos
of antiques.

Maris Stella kits are suitable for
intermediate level modelers. For those who want to go a step beyond, we are
providing copper hull plates, details on period appropriate stains and paint
schemes, and rigging rope diameter information. Sails are a great accessory
that can be purchased separately. The set of sails includes 27 pre-sewn sails.

Three-dimensional modeling of the
Admiralty draughts and the kit’s plank on bulwark hull construction with 19
bulkheads makes it easy for even casual modelers to achieve the original hull
lines with great accuracy.

HMS Speedy (1782)

The Maris Stella Royal Navy’s HMS
Speedy ship model kit is based on painstaking research that includes use of
three Admiralty draughts, an original 4-pounder cannon design from the
applicable Establishment tables based on historical treatises, masting using
the Admiralty hull draught and the Royal Navy formulae for Brig-Sloops, and
period-authentic rigging. It further includes a rather large boat and hull
copper plates. The hull copper plates are an additional article.

HMS Speedy (1782-1801) was a
Brig-Sloop of the Royal Navy built by shipwright Thomas King of Dover. She and
her sister-ship HMS Flirt were the first of a new class of English brigs (the
“Speedy-Class“) intended as a small, fast escort. The lines of her hull were
inspired by cutters. Her curved deck ran flush from stem to stern. Note the
long stem and heavily sloped rudder, resulting in Speedy having a relatively
short keel that was 75 percent of total gun deck length. That keel angled
heavily downward as she floated. The Speedy-Class design greatly contrasts to
the previous more seaworthy but slower brig vessels using a more rectangular
side-profile.

Her armament was light, with the great guns comprised of fourteen 4-pounder
guns which would have been of the later era Armstrong design. Roughly speaking,
Speedy`s gunports were open rectangles 2` in length, 1` 9“ tall and 1` above
deck. They were unable to accommodate guns larger than the intended 4-pounders.

On July 3, 1801, Speedy was again
captured by a French fleet. Napolean gave her to the Pope for the Papal Navy in
1802.