These features provided better artillery stability.
The ratio between the length and the breadth was narrower, forecastle and stern castle smaller than typical galleons with low freeboard. A beautiful, finely detailed wooden kit with photo etched brass parts, brass and wooden parts. The design had some special characteristics. The lastest model in Amati's Victory Models line of wooden ship kits. In that letter Brand stated that: "On the 10th of June or thereabouts a large pyrate Ship of forty Guns with three Sloops in her company came upon the coast of North carolina ware they endeavour'd To goe in to a harbour, call'd Topsail Inlet, the Ship Stuck upon the barr att the entrance of the harbour and is lost as is one of the sloops. Ship history HMS Revenge was an English galleon built by Sir John Hawkins in the shipyards of Deptford in 1577. 164.00 Lynx - Model Ship Kit Lynx 745 by Mantua. Scale 1:100 Length: 456 mm (20'), Height: 356mm (14') Display scale kit difficulty: Intermediate Level 126.00 Add to cart More. Research has uncovered two eyewitness accounts that shed light on where the two pirate vessels were lost.Īccording to a deposition given by David Herriot, the former captain of Adventure, "the said Thatch's ship Queen Anne's Revenge run a-ground off of the Bar of Topsail-Inlet." Herriot further states that Adventure "run a-ground likewise about Gun-shot from the said Thatch".Ĭaptain Ellis Brand of HMS Lyme provided additional insight as to where the two ships were lost in a letter (July 12, 1718) to the Lords of Admiralty. Black Falcon ship modelThis is a fine reproduction of the type of two masts brig commanded by the infamous pirate captain William Kidd (1645-1701).
During that attempt, Queen Anne's Revenge and the sloop Adventure grounded on a sandbar and were abandoned. Soon after leaving Charleston, Blackbeard's fleet tried to enter Old Topsail Inlet in North Carolina, now known as Beaufort Inlet.