Billing Boats USA

Description

Scale model of a Danish three-masted warship. 1:75 scale Wooden hull. 35.43″H 39.76″L 7.87″W (expert)

A three-masted warship launched in 1765. Length 48.93 m, breadth 9.70 m, draught 5.07 m, displacement 1,076 tons, with a crew of 402. The Norske Love was originally named after the Norwegian/Danish coat-of-arms, and was renamed the Oresund in 1772. The vessel was used as a guard boat in the Oresund and other coastal waters around Denmark. In 1795, after having been stripped into a block ship, she was used to give shelter for homeless families after the fire in Copenhagen that same year. There was a normal crew of 667 men and an armament of 70 cannons. She mounted 26 cannons (24 pounders) on the lower deck, 26 cannons (18 pounders) on the middle deck and 18 cannons (8 pounders) on the upper deck. The Norske Love was used as a guard ship in Oeresund and other Danish waters. The ship was deleted from the naval register in 1798.

Kit includes laser cut wooden hull and wooden strips, fittings set, rudder, rigging thread, plan and manual. Scale model of a Danish three-masted warship. 1:75 scale Wooden hull. 35.43″H 39.76″L 7.87″W. This kit contains English translation instructions, all measurements in the booklet are in Metric.

Paints used on this kit: BB#1, BB#3, BB#5, BB#6, BB#11, BB#14, BB#16, BB#17, BB#36, and BB#40 thinner.