EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE SHIP MODEL OF H.M.S. LEOPARD
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The three masted vessel set on a pinned and planked hull with deck features including lifeboat, a carved figurehead, hatches and cannon, on a bone inlaid stand, the stern inscribed 'LEOPARD', a later glazed case with a plaque inscribed 'H.M.S. LEOPARD 4TH RATE OF 50 GUNS CIRCA 1795'
The ship 15 in. (38 cm.) long; 13¾ in. (35 cm.) high

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HMS Leopard was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812.
In 1807 The Leopard was involved in the Chesapeake Bay affair resulting in political repercussions in the United States, and in 1812 ran aground off Anticosti island in heavy fog. The ship was destroyed but all hands survived.

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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