Ship model
Materials: Wood, hemp, paint
Construction: Carved, painted
Date: C. 1820
Description: Description: Model of an 18-Gun Naval Brig on its original cradle type stand. Standing rigging is tarred while the deck has 18 cannons with an open central hatch and two others. Each mast has fighting platforms. A female figurehead at the bow and a long boat at the stern. Stern is painted with floral and scroll decoration and the stand's border is painted in a diamond pattern. Keel is below the waterline in a slot through the stand. Brass turned cannons with touch holes rest on correctly styled carriages. Figurehead is a gowned woman. Original paint surfaces.Date: Circa 1820
Size: 39.5" H x 44" W x 15" D
Weight: 11.4 pounds
Condition: Original paint with desirable craquelure. Small crack near stern approximately 1.5" length. Cracks on stand.
History: The Cruizer class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops were the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging. A ship-sloop was rigged with three masts whereas a brig-sloop was rigged as a brig with only a fore mast and a main mast.The Cruizer class was the most numerous class of warships built by the British during the Napoleonic wars, with 110 vessels built to this design, and the second most numerous class of sailing warship built to a single design for any navy at any time, after the smaller 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloops. Used extensively in the Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812.