An exhibition standard 1:384 scale waterline model of the Baltimore Schooner 'Lynx'

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An exhibition standard 1:384 scale waterline model of the Baltimore Schooner 'Lynx'
built by J.A. Evans with masts, spars, standing and running rigging and full suit of sails set in a port reach, catheads, windlass, companionways, belaying rails, stove pipe, gratings, tiller, two ship's boats, one in chocks, one in davits, with bottom boards, thwarts and oars, bilge pumps, six guns in carriages and members of the crew going about their duties. The fully planked hull with planked deck is finished in black, brown and natural wood and mounted on a painted moulded seascape. Glazed case with legend -- 5¾ x 8¾in. (14.5 x 22.2cm.)
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Lot Essay

This model was awarded Bronze Medal M.E. Exhibition London 1997.

Lynx was a 'letter of marque ship built on the Chesapeake in 1812, and was captured on 13 April 1813 in the Rappahannock River by boats of Sir John Warren's squadron. She was renamed 'Mosquidobit' and taken into the Royal Navy of H. Chappelle 'The Search for Speed under Sail' pp 215-217.

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