Golden Hind 30"

• 30" long x 12" Wide x 24" High (1:31 scale)
• Requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
• Includes a numbered Certificate of Authenticity signed by HMS Founder and Master Builder Richard Norris, as only 25 will ever be made.
• Plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the hull one at a time).
• Built with rare, high quality woods such as cherry, yellow siris, birch and maple.
• The model rests perfectly on a large wood base between four arched metal dolphins.
• Masterfully stitched canvas sails.
• No plastic fittings (metal anchors and machine turned brass cannons).
• Significant deck detail including lanterns, tied down cannons, barrels, oars on lifeboat, cannon ball racks, and many more accurate deck details!
• To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship.
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The Golden Hind (or Golden Hinde) was an English galleon best known for its global circumnavigation between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. She was originally known as the Pelican, and was renamed by Drake in mid-voyage in 1577, as he prepared to enter the Straits of Magellan, calling it the Golden Hind to compliment his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose armorial crest was a golden hind (the heraldic term for a doe).