Royal Navy 3rd Rates of Renown

This box set equips you with three third-rate Royal Navy ships of the line. Building on the excellent 3rd tier plastic sprues, the box contains additional metal components to craft the following famous vessels, all of which saw action at the Battle of Trafalgar!

HMS Bellerophon - This third-rate 74-gun gun has a long and colorful history, serving during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. While most of her time was spent blockading or escorting convoys, she excelled in three naval actions: The Glorious First of June, the Battle of the Nile, and the Battle of Trafalgar. At Trafalgar she engaged in a fierce battle against Spanish and French ships and suffered heavy casualties, including the death of her captain, John Cooke.

After the Trafalgar, she resumed her blockade duties throughout France and took on other escort duties in North America between 1813 and 1814. HMS Bellepheron was commissioned to blockade Rochefort in 1815 and was the ship on which Napoleon boarded to formally surrender to the British after his defeat at Waterloo (his escape to America blocked).

HMS Revenge - Launched on April 13, 1805, HMS Revenge was a third-rate machine with 74 guns. She belonged to a larger class of 74s with 24-pounder guns on the upper deck rather than the more common 18-pounders.

Newly commissioned and commanded by Captain Robert Moorsom, she served in Admiral Collingwood's column at the Battle of Trafalgar. She would continue to serve until 1842.

HMS Tonnant - An 80-gun third rate ship of the Royal Navy, she was originally the lead ship of the French Tonnant class, captured by the British at the Siege of Toulon (August 1793) and recaptured by the French at the end of the siege (December 1793). 1793) and subsequently recaptured by Horatio Nelson's fleet at Aboukir Bay during the Battle of the Nile (1 August 1978). She would go on to fight the French at the Battle of Trafalgar.

Tonnant was Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane's flagship during most of the Chesapeake Bay campaigns of the War of 1812. Notably, Francis Scott Key dined aboard the Tonnant during a hearing for the release of prisoners. As a result of their derived knowledge of the impending attack on Baltimore at Fort McHenry. As a result, he and his companions were not allowed to return until after the attack. Witnessing the bombing of Fort McHenry, Key wrote the poem Defense of Fort M'Henry, which later became The Star Spangled Banner.

Box contains 3 plastic models with metal components