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INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Modeling The
US Frigate
Confederacy
1778
Kit No. MS ????
Scale: 3/16" = 1 ft.
Overall Length: 35"
Height: 8 1/2""
Instructions and model prototype prepared by Chuck Passaro
Manufactured by Model Shipways, Inc - Hollywood Florida
www.modelexpo-online.com
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- Page 1 Kit No. MS ???? Scale: 3/16" = 1 ft. Overall Length: 35" Height: 8 1/2”" Instructions and model prototype prepared by Chuck Passaro Manufactured by Model Shipways, Inc - Hollywood Florida www.modelexpo-online.com Download the full color version of these instructions -...
- Page 2 report refers to a "Mr. Tolman who built the A Short History of the Confederacy…." Dr. Robinson also mentioned Continental Frigate that Benjamin Talman's widow credited him as the builder. Although Robinson gave no source Confederacy for the widow's claim, a Rhode Island shipbuilder named Benjamin Tallman was possibly the "Mr.
- Page 3 The following year proved difficult for Captain interesting vessel. Chapelle called her "a Harding and his ship. After an extended stay at remarkable vessel", noting she was "very long Martinique, on March 17, 1780, the ship's chap- for her rate" with a "narrow beam and shoal draft lain reported to Benjamin Franklin that "the "and was "an ornate ship, profusely carved."...
- Page 4 that the ship "is well constructed and propor- tioned, and only two years old." The ship was The year 1781 began with some success taken into the Royal Navy under the name when, in March 1781, Confederacy and the Confederate. The suggestion was made to add sloop Saratoga captured a 32 gun ship.
- Page 5 However, a subsequent survey found extensive rot and other problems in her hull and suggested breaking her up. Dr. Robinson wrote that green timber used in her construction was the cause for her poor condition upon her capture. Although a very attractive ship, Confederacy's career was typical of the American naval effort during the Revolution.
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