Ship model  French corvette LA CRÉOLE

Corvette LA CRÉOLE - historical background

The French corvette LA CRÉOLE was designed 1827 by engineer P. M. Leroux. On 5 May 1829 she was launched at the Cherbourg shipyard. She had a length of 39 m, width of 9,70 m, and was armed with 20 thirty pounder carronades and four eighteen pounder cannons. The crew were 150 men. A contemporary dockyard model of the ship today still stands in the Musée de la Marine in Paris.

The model ship LA CRÉOLE, photos, description and dimensions

This ship model is implemented as partly rigged model here. The rigging stands up to the top of the lower masts. This allows for a clearer view on the deck.
Please take your time to have a good look at the set of photos. There are several views of the entire model and several closer views hull and rigging. If you click on a photo you will get that photo in high resolution. Only these high resolution photographs show how much work and handicraft ability were put in the model. (If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, press F11 to minimize navigation bars and have a larger screen with the photos.)

This very beautiful masterpiece model of the LA CRÉOLE is 1 : 36 scale. Length is 111 cm, width 27 cm, height 65 cm.