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from "The Woodcarvers of Nova Scotia" by George E G Maclaren.

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A model shipwright and an amateur historian are heads & tails of the same coin

current builds:

HMS Berwick 1775, 1/192 scratchbuild; a Slade 74 in the Navy Board style

Mediator sloop, 1/48 - an 18th century transport scratchbuild 

French longboat - CAF - 1/48, on hold

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STAY SAFE

 

A model shipwright and an amateur historian are heads & tails of the same coin

current builds:

HMS Berwick 1775, 1/192 scratchbuild; a Slade 74 in the Navy Board style

Mediator sloop, 1/48 - an 18th century transport scratchbuild 

French longboat - CAF - 1/48, on hold

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Does anyone know definitively what the figurehead of Britannia 1840 looked like. F.H.Lane shows a shield in her left hand (port) (low) in 1842. Other models show no Shield in her left hand and the figurehead to be guilded rather than painted as is the replica figurehead on the QE2. The figurehead on QE2 shows her with shield on the starboard (right lower) and spear in her left (opposite hand). the other way around to that seen in Lane's painting.

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