- Fully assembled and ready for display
- Exhaustively researched and historically accurate to the actual tall ship
- Model ship quality level: Museum
- 38" long x 12" Wide x 28" High
- This model ship was built from over 1000 pieces made of the finest materials:
- Woods such as cherry, white lotus wood, birch, maple and rosewood
- Machine turned brass cannons
- Hand sewn thick canvas sails that do not wrinkle
- Masterfully painted like the actual USS Essex tall ship
- Perfectly taught rigging with varied thread color and thickness
- Amazing deck details (tied down cannons, cannonballs, planked deck with nail holes and more)
- The ship model rests on a sturdy wood base supported by four arched metal dolphins (marble base pictured)
- Click here to learn more about how the model ships and model boats are built
Built by the citizens of Essex County, Massachusetts, who presented her to the US Government, USS Essex was commissioned under command of Captain Edward Preble. On her first voyage in 1800, during the war with France, Essex helped convoy a fleet of Dutch East Indiamen through the Indian Ocean. In 1801 she was one of several ships sent to the Mediterranean to contain the Barbary Corsairs harassing American shipping. She sailed first under Captain William Bainbridge and then under Captain James Barron. Following the war, she was laid up from 1806 to 1809. At the beginning of the war of 1812, under command of Captain David Porter, Essex captured ten prizes, including HMS Alert (18 guns) between July and September.
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