HMS Agamemnon was a Royal Navy third-rate ship of the
line with an armament of 64 guns. She was built at
Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River in the New Forest,
was launched on 10 April 1781, and served until 1809
when she was lost after running aground on a shoal in
the mouth of the River Plate.
In
1793, HMS Agamemnon came under command of Captain
Horatio Nelson. Nelson sailed Agamemnon in
the blockade of Toulon and in the capture of the
Corsican ports of Bastia and Calvi. It was in this
campaign, onboard the HMS Agamemnon,
that Nelson lost his right eye.
For
three of the most crucial decades of British naval
history, the HMS Agamemnon was at the center of events, fighting
at the Battle of the Saintes, the Battle of Copenhagen
and Trafalgar. In the Battle of Trafalgar, she forced the surrender of
the Spanish four-decker
Santísima Trinidad. Later,
the HMS Agamemnon
served in the West Indies,
participating in the Battle of Santo Domingo, and
then in South American waters, until she was wrecked off the
coast of present-day Uruguay in 1809.
The
HMS Agamemnon
is remembered as
Horatio Nelson's favorite ship.
He was very fond of the Agamemnon and described her
as “without exception the finest 64 in the service.”
He was the Captain of the HMS Agamemnon for 3 years
and 3 months.
This
HMS Agamemnon
model
features:
- Realistic soft sails.
No dark rims, not bright white, no uniform shape that
looks like
plastic.
- Authentic
extensive rigging system comprised of
many different sizes of rope and features numerous
blocks and deadeyes.
-
Copper-plated bottom:
individual copper pieces (no fake lines, no copper
paint on wood hull.)
-
Blackened metal cannons and wooden carriage. Under the main deck, all guns are "real" guns which
have proper barrels and wooden carriages which sit
on a real deck.
- Scratch-built,
plank-on-frame
construction.
38" long x 30" tall x 12"
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