If folks are familiar at all with the H.M.S. Pegasus, it’s the usually with the second iteration – a 28 gun sixth rate frigate launched in 1779. The 1779 ship was most notable for having Prince William Henry (who would become King William IV) as her Captain for a brief time.
The first H.M.S Pegasus (and the one featured here by Victory Models) was a 14-gun Swan class sloop launched in December of 1776. She sailed to Newfoundland the following year – and subsequently sank in a storm losing the entire crew. A bit less of an illustrious career.
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T’Gallant Yards
The Topgallant yards, or simply the T’gallants, are the upper most yards on a ship of this size. Only the main and foremasts have t’gallants on a sixth rate ship. These yards are also much simpler to outfit than the other yards. Both the fore and main T’gallants have just a pair of clueline blocks…
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Topmast Yards
I’m starting on the topsail yards with a little different approach that the lower yards. Instead of doing them one at a time – I went ahead and attached all the necessary accouterments to the three topsail yards before rigging them. One more quick note here – While the kit shows an additional t’gallant yard…
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More Lower Yard Rigging
As mentioned in previous posts, the running rigging is further broken down into subcategories. Some running rigging manipulates the yards themselves – helping to steer and align the ship, while other running rigging attaches and manipulates the sails themselves. The latter is often left off of models where the sails are not included. However, I…
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Yard Tackles
As the name implies, the yard tackles are similar to the main stay tackles in that their primary purpose is to facilitate hauling gear and supplies aboard the ship. Situated on the ends of the main and fore lower yards, they’re able to serve as cranes as they yards swing back and forth. The tricing…
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Bunt and Leech Lines
As describe in previous posts, there are two major types of rigging on a square rigged vessel – standing rigging and running rigging. In short, standing rigging, which was darkened through the use of tar, was fixed in place to hold the masts and other parts of the ship in place. The running rigging was…
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