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Jason, Great job on the rigging mate.

Toni, Great model and a great build log. Thank you for posting.

Grant, your Launch looks great mate. I do like the use of Holly for the planking.

marsalv, Great work on the deck fittings, especially the round stairs.

Great start Bob and an interesting style.

Hi JIm, I have one of those somewhere. I must give it a try. Thanks for sharing your idea with us.

Great to find this post as I've been looking at that bench wondering about getting it or not. Sounds like it will do. and never thought about shipping untill I read Jacks post.

1627 - Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador 1775 - Force under Ethan Allan and Benedict Arnold cross Lake Champlain and capture British fort at Ticonderoga, New York. 1800 - USS Constitution captures Letter of Marque Sandwich. 1862 - Confederates destroy Norfolk and Pensacola Navy Yards. 1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat. 1949 - First shipboard launching of LARK, guided missile by USS Norton Sound. 1960 - USS Triton (SSRN-586) completes submerged circumnavigation of world in 84 days following many of the routes taken by Magellan and cruising 46,000 miles.

Buck, Great finish you've got on your model.

Nice looking deck Kevin and as Sjors says, it would make a nice summer workshop.

1534 - Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River 1667 - The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet in the Second Anglo-Dutch War begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy. 1882 - Establishment of Office of Naval Records of the War of the Rebellion (became part of Naval Historical Center) 1942 - First Navy photographic interpretation unit set up in the Atlantic. 1959 - Launching of USS George Washington (SSBN-598), first nuclear powered fleet ballistic missile submarine, at Groton, CT

Looking good Skippy, Great work on the coppering mate.

She's looking great Juergen.

Mobbsie, Nice start on the coppering.

She's looking good Tex. This is one ship I'm considering building one day.

Now that is one large model. And I want it

You got it. Well done Anja. Your turn.

So close Anja.

Not the USS Talbot Anja. Try again.

793 - Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England. 1663 - Battle at Amegical: English & Portugese fleet beats Spanish. 1761 - British fleet occupies Belle Britain. 1856 - A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island. 1937 - Observation of total eclipse of the sun by U.S. Navy detachment commanded by CAPT J. F. Hellweg, USN, participating in the National Geographic Society - United States Navy Eclipse Expedition at Canton Island in the Phoenix Islands, Pacific Ocean. USS Avocet was assigned to this expediton. 1942 - The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle. 1958 - Navy and Post Office deliver first official missile mail when USS Barbero (SS-317) fired Regulus II missile with 3000 letters 100 miles east of Jacksonville, FL to Mayport, FL. 1960 - Helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10) rescue 54 crewmen of British SS Shunlee, grounded on Pratus Reef in South China Sea. 1967 - USS Liberty (AGTR-5) attacked by Israeli forces in Mediterranean. 1972 - The Pentagon has announced plans to develop a completely new type of Nuclear Missile that could be launched from a submarine and flown like an aircraft flying below 500ft to avoid radar detection to reach it's target, this is part of the ongoing Cruise Missile development . 1978 - Naomi James breaks the solo round-the-world sailing record by two days with her 53 ft yacht Express Crusader when she crossed the finish line in Dartmouth taking 272 days to complete the record. 1982 - Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram. 2007 - Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.

Great work Mark, I'm looking forward to more.

Great thread Kevin, thanks for starting it.

A little hint to help. She was built at the Bath Iron Works

Augie, She's looking great mate. What do you have planned for your next build?

Andy, Congratulations on your promotion to Captain.