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Ship model Sir Francis Drake's GOLDEN HIND
Like this ship model or similarly Sir Francis Drake's GOLDEN HIND may have looked,
with which he had succeeded to sail around the globe from 1577 to 1580. He
successfully looted Spanish settlements on the Pacific coast and captured
treasure ships. With 80 pounds of gold and 26 tons of silver bars (contemporary
value of 126000 English pound or about half the English Crown's revenues a year)
he chose to search for the Northwest Passage and sailed as far as 48 degrees
north, just south of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, before turning south. He then
sailed westward and passed Palau and the Philippines before rounding the Cape of Good Hope back to
England. It was the second circumnavigation of the globe after Magellan. It was
a great achievement of
Francis Drake and his crew, given the record of many later
voyages. Please take your time to have a good look at the set of photos. There are six pictures of the model. 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 small but beautiful ship model is 1:60 scale. Length is 58 cm, width 23 cm, and height 50 cm. This model has been already sold. 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. |
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