Roger Marsh
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Of course, that is only Howe's command flag on 'Queen Charlotte', flown at the main truck, not the ensign itself, which would be likely to be even larger. See de Loutherburg's painting of the action at https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/11962.html . Though this does not actually show the ensign, the command flag is clearly emphasised, though it is more conventional in pattern 'than the real surviving one already featured in this thread. The early French revolutionary ensign on Villaret-Joyeuse's flagship 'la Montagne', 120, is also worthy of note; that design was very soon thereafter replaced by the modern pattern French flag and ensign.
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Robert, I built a 'Lowestoffe' – that is to say, she is not yet finished and rigged. I built the hull from copies of Slade's original drafts from the NMM (as probably you did too), plank-on-frame to scale strake size, and then took a GRP (fiberglass) mould of that – i.e. it was built as a plug. From that mould a number of 1:48 hulls were produced. They show the planking strake lines, the upper hull, between wale and lower strake, was then overplanked with boxwood. With the rest of the hull painted (white bottom, black strake and Prussian blue topsides) it really looks like an original planked hull, but with the advantage of being able to produce more of them from the mould. The model was intended to be sailed under R/C, if I ever get that far! Good luck with yours.
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