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HMS GLATTON
HMS Glatton was a 56-gun
fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.
Originally an East Indiaman, she was bought by the Royal
Navy in 1795, and converted into a warship.
Glatton was unusual in
that she was the only ship of the line to be armed
exclusively with carronades instead of the traditional
long guns that other warships carried in this era.
Carronades were half the weight of the equivalent
cannon, and could be worked by fewer men. They could
also fire much heavier shot; Glatton was armed with
twenty-eight 64-pounder and twenty-eight 32-pounder
carronades. This extremely heavy armament meant that the
fourth rate Glatton could discharge a heavier and more
destructive broadside than the mighty first-rate
Victory.
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In the Battle of Camperdown in
1797, under her first captain, Henry Trollope, this
heavy armament allowed HMS Glatton to attack a French
squadron consisting of a 50-gun ship, five frigates, a
brig, and a cutter in the English Channel and drive them
into Flushing.
Probably the most famous commander of Glatton was
Captain (later Vice-Admiral) William Bligh. Bligh, who
had served under Captain James Cook from 1776 to 1779,
had been in command of
HMS Bounty
when the crew mutinied. At the
Battle of Copenhagen in 1801,
when
Nelson pretended not to notice Admiral Parker's signal
"43" (stop the battle) and kept the signal "16" hoisted
to continue the engagement, Bligh was the only captain
in the squadron who could see that the two signals were
in conflict. He chose to fly Nelson's signal, and all
the vessels behind him kept fighting.
Having spotted a Dutch frigate
maneuvering to attack HMS Elephant--the flagship of
Admiral Horatio Nelson, Bligh sailed directly into the
line of fire and caught most of the enemy's broadside.
HMS Glatton was severely damaged but remained afloat;
Elephant was saved. Bligh later received Nelson's
personal thanks.
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Bligh had gained the reputation of being
a firm disciplinarian. Accordingly, he was offered the
position of Governor of New South Wales on the
recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks (President of the
Royal Society and a main sponsor of the breadfruit
expeditions) and appointed in March 1805, at £2,000 per
annum, twice the pay of the retiring Governor Philip
Gidley King.
In 1814,
Bligh
was promoted to Vice Admiral of the Blue.
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About the construction of the
HMS Glatton
wooden scale model:
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Plank-on-frame
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Blackened metal cannons and wooden carriage. Under the main deck, all guns are "real" guns which
have proper barrels and wooden carriages which sit on 2
real decks under the main deck. These
guns are not simple barrels inserted into a solid hull
like in a cheap model.
- Authentic extensive rigging system comprised of many
different sizes of rope and features numerous blocks and
deadeyes
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37" long x 27" tall x 12" wide
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