Bonaventure (1683); Warship; Fourth rate; 50 guns

Scale 1:48. A Navy Board skeleton model of a 48 to 50-gun two-decker (circa 1683), built plank on frame in the Navy Board style. The model is decked and equipped and is mounted on its original wooden gilded ‘dolphin crutches’, and has the date ‘1682’ inscribed on the lower stern galleries.

This model illustrates very well the ornate carved decoration around the bow and stern galleries, as well as the carved wreathed gunports along the upper wales. This model is one of the few which still has the original mica set in the window frames in the stern galleries. This model possibly represents the ‘Bonaventure’, a 50-gun two-decker fourth rate of 1683.

Object Details

ID: SLR0374
Collection: Ship models
Type: Full hull model; Frame model; Plank-on-frame
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Bonaventure (1650)
Date made: circa 1682
People: Morrice, F.; Anderson, Roger Charles
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall model: 305 x 1010 x 230 mm; Base: 130 x 1120 x 310 mm
Parts: Bonaventure (1683); Warship; Fourth rate; 50 guns