Halifax Ship Kit (Constructo)

Description

Halifax-  British Schooner
The HMS Halifax was a schooner built for merchant service at Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1765 that the British Royal Navy purchased in 1768 for coastal patrol in North America in the years just prior to the American Revolution. She is one of the best documented schooners from early North America.
Originally named Nova Scotia Packet, she was renamed Halifax after the British royal Navy purchased her in October of 1768, she met a need for more coastal patrol schooners to combat smuggling and deal with colonial unrest in New England. The careful record of her lines and construction by Portsmouth dockyard naval architects, and the detailed record of her naval service, make the schooner a much-studied example of early schooners in the New World.
After an active career on the coast on North America she was wrecked on 15 February 1775 at Foster Island near Machias, Maine.she was reportedly intentionally run aground by a local pilot. The court martial of Nunn, his officers, and crew, attributed the loss to the pilot's ignorance; nothing came of this as the pilot had disappeared while Nunn was arranging transport from Sheep's Island to Boston for his crew with a local shipowner, Mr. Beale.
The wreck played a role in the Battle of Machias later that year, when Admiral Samuel Graves ordered that her guns be recovered. A later schooner named Halifax serving in North America was recorded as being purchased in 1775, though her lines were identical to the Halifax sunk that year, and she may therefore have been saved and returned to service.
This new version of the kit uses state-of-the-art laser cut wood and includes a new and detailed photographic instruction manual and features
Plank on Bulkhead Construction. Also included are a set of pre-sewn sails to complete a museum quality look.
While this kit comes with detailed instructions, the "Halifax" is best for intermediate to advanced builders!
Length 29.1″ Height 23.2″ Width 10.2″ Scale 1:35