Ahoy! Hear YE Hear YE! All ye 3D Modeler types that frequent PA!
I would like to announce my next award.
The ship I would like modeled is the 70 gun warship HMS Lenox, built in Deptford England in 1678 - a Restoration era 3rd rate built during the reign of King Charles II and during the height of the Age of Piracy. Ships just like her spent their whole lives on escort duty - including in the Caribbean. Lenox was no different - and aside from some action in the first two decades of her career, she led a life of mainly hard convoy duty.
For the first part of her life things were exciting - she fought in numerous battles and campaigns throughout the Third Anglo-Dutch War (including the Battle of Solebay 1672), and the Anglo-French war (Nine Years War/War of the Grand Alliance). She fought at the Battles of Barlfeur, and Beachy Head. She was one of the seventeen ships that attacked and destroyed the famous French flagship Soleil Royale in the Action at La Hogue in 1692 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_La_Hogue_(1692)
After this she performed convoy duty in the Mediterranean defending the Levant convoys against Turks and Barbary corsairs.
She was so completely worn out and rotten after 23 years of service, that she returned to Deptford where she was originally built and had to be completely overhauled in 1701.
She was the only ship that survived the gale that took down Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's sqaudron off the Scilly Isles in 1707. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudesley_Shovell One of the worst naval disasters in British History. This disaster was the catalyst that caused the Crown and Navy Board to issue the unheard of reward of 20,000 pounds - for the accurate solution to the longitude problem. This set off a long standing race among scientists and inventors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_prize Highly recommend you read Davia Sobel's book "Longitude" or buy the movie/mini series of the same name featuring Jeremy Irons.
She was rebuilt again in 1721 to the 1719 Establishment and led the standard life of a 3rd rate during a long standing period of peace (what I call the Era of Utter Boredom) throughout the rest of her life. She was sunk as a breakwater in 1754.
If you should choose to undertake this task the reward is the same as that for the Zeven Provincien - $1000 USD
I will sweeten the pot with an additional $500 USD if she can be completed in three months time from receipt of commission. If you want to know if I am on the level just ask KrisWood.
One caveat is that KrisWood has precedence on this project if he should choose to take it.
So here are her plans and images on Flickr. You will notice the large number of Van de Velde paintings and drawings of Lenox. I know of no other English ship that he portrayed so much and in my opinion I think he favored her. She is quite an aesthetically pleasing ship. MK
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49225014@N05/sets/72157632087917278/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49225014@N05/sets/72157632087917278/
Also, I have many more pictures of her details, but will forgo posting details of her rigging and guns until the modeler is at that stage that he needs them - just like with the Zeven Provincien.
I would like to announce my next award.
The ship I would like modeled is the 70 gun warship HMS Lenox, built in Deptford England in 1678 - a Restoration era 3rd rate built during the reign of King Charles II and during the height of the Age of Piracy. Ships just like her spent their whole lives on escort duty - including in the Caribbean. Lenox was no different - and aside from some action in the first two decades of her career, she led a life of mainly hard convoy duty.
For the first part of her life things were exciting - she fought in numerous battles and campaigns throughout the Third Anglo-Dutch War (including the Battle of Solebay 1672), and the Anglo-French war (Nine Years War/War of the Grand Alliance). She fought at the Battles of Barlfeur, and Beachy Head. She was one of the seventeen ships that attacked and destroyed the famous French flagship Soleil Royale in the Action at La Hogue in 1692 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_at_La_Hogue_(1692)
After this she performed convoy duty in the Mediterranean defending the Levant convoys against Turks and Barbary corsairs.
She was so completely worn out and rotten after 23 years of service, that she returned to Deptford where she was originally built and had to be completely overhauled in 1701.
She was the only ship that survived the gale that took down Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's sqaudron off the Scilly Isles in 1707. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudesley_Shovell One of the worst naval disasters in British History. This disaster was the catalyst that caused the Crown and Navy Board to issue the unheard of reward of 20,000 pounds - for the accurate solution to the longitude problem. This set off a long standing race among scientists and inventors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_prize Highly recommend you read Davia Sobel's book "Longitude" or buy the movie/mini series of the same name featuring Jeremy Irons.
She was rebuilt again in 1721 to the 1719 Establishment and led the standard life of a 3rd rate during a long standing period of peace (what I call the Era of Utter Boredom) throughout the rest of her life. She was sunk as a breakwater in 1754.
If you should choose to undertake this task the reward is the same as that for the Zeven Provincien - $1000 USD
I will sweeten the pot with an additional $500 USD if she can be completed in three months time from receipt of commission. If you want to know if I am on the level just ask KrisWood.
One caveat is that KrisWood has precedence on this project if he should choose to take it.
So here are her plans and images on Flickr. You will notice the large number of Van de Velde paintings and drawings of Lenox. I know of no other English ship that he portrayed so much and in my opinion I think he favored her. She is quite an aesthetically pleasing ship. MK
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49225014@N05/sets/72157632087917278/show/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49225014@N05/sets/72157632087917278/
Also, I have many more pictures of her details, but will forgo posting details of her rigging and guns until the modeler is at that stage that he needs them - just like with the Zeven Provincien.
