Ship model French corvette La Créole of 1827

Scale 1 : 48, length 140 cm, width 47 cm, height 98 cm,
More photos: of entire ship, of details. Click on the photos for high resolution pictures!

The French corvette La Créole

The La Créole was a 24-gun corvette of the French Navy. Her plans were drawn by P. M. Leroux in 1827. She was launched in Cherbourg in May 1829. The ship took part in the French invasion of Mexico in 1838, and most notably in the Bombardment of San Juan de Ulloa before French troops disembarked and captured the city of Veracruz.

There is a fine shipyard model on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris which is shown by many photos in the book of Jean Boudriot, Modeles Historiques, Musée de la Marine, ISBN 2 903 179-24, A.N.C.R.E. Paris 1997 (in French). 

The La Créole model, photos, description and dimensions

The ship model was built to plans of Jean Boudriot. The model was made without sails to allow for a better view on the very detailed, impressive rigging. The dark planking is ebony, the underwater hull has copper plating, the gun port section, the galion and the boats are made from boxwood, the deck is ash tree, deck superstructures are pear, the masts are from birch tree, the yards are walnut.

Please take your time to have a good look at the set of photos. There are several views of the entire ship model taken from all directions, and several closer views of hull, deck 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.

Viewing the high resolution photos: If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer or Firefox, press F11 to minimize navigation bars and have a larger screen with the photos. The high resolution photos are about 12 megapixel. So they are about 10 - 20  times larger than your 0.5 - 1.3 megapixel computer screen. Most browsers by default downsize the pictures to screen size, so you cannot see all the details of the ship models. To see the original resolution  move the mouse over the pictures and click on the magnifying lens.

This model of the La Créole is a very beautiful masterpiece, especially in detailing of hull and rigging. It took 3000 work hours to finish this ship. The model is placed on a board with a copper mirror to better show the elegant lines of the hull.
The ship model is 1 : 48 scale. Length is 140 cm, width 47 cm, height 98 cm.

The ship model was built by Mr. Klaus Reuter, Münster, Germany, Tel. +49 251 790989,

email helga.reuter1@t-online.de.

This model is no longer for sale. The pictures and the data are shown in the gallery of the ship models sold only to let enthusiasts and model makers enjoy the photos and maybe get ideas or some guidance, if someone builds such a model by himself.