Berbice 1780

Name: Berbice

• Cat. No. ZL:004
• Scale: 1:72
• Lenght: 480 mm
• Width: 152 mm
• Height: 360 mm
• Quantity in package: 1 piece
• Type of packaging: Box (500x350x50 mm)

Laser-Cut Cardboard Kit includes:

• all parts laser cut from cardboard
• arrangement of planks on decks and boards engrave by laser
• laser cutted and profiled desks of planking
• copper tape
• guns and swivel guns
• wooden dowels for masts and yards
• blocks, deadeyesand hearts
• wire
• ready decorations
• flags printed on canvas paper
• laser cut sails
• ropes of different thickness
• colorful instruction illustrate by many pictures and descriptions which showes not only step by step stages of building but also includes techniques of gluing and painting on rules of detailed guide
• Language: German, English, Polish

The name clipper has its roots in English slang verb to clip. Originally it described small single masted fishermen and pilots in Pennsylvania,
New England and Chesapeake Bay. Shipwrights from Baltimore gained the biggest fame and they are considered  the creators of clippers.
They also built single masted sloops, cutters, twin-masted schooners, brigs and brigantines. Thanks to fine-shaped hulls clippers were
so fast that speed occurred as their most known  attribute. Clippers'  owners and captains were often merchants or corsairs dealing 
with smuggling and slave trade. They plundered Spanish towns, broke British blockade on American coasts and became more and more popular.
In the nineteenth century big merchantman were built according to clippers' design for tea transport from China and India so they were called tea clippers. The first one, 750-tons Rainbow designed by John W. Griffiths, was launched in 1854 in New York.Berbice is a two-masted topsail schooner, a classic example of Baltimore clipper. She was built in 1780 and bought by Royal Navy in 1782 or  1783. After twelve years in service she wrecked on San Domingo  coast. She had yacht-type hull lines that provided her with high speed. Armament  consisted  of  eight 4-pounders  and  eight 3/4-pounds  falkonets and some smaller weapon. A letter of marque and reprisal survived in Massachusetts state archives given to a Pole Feliks Miklaszewicz with permission to take actions against British ships and goods. Miklaszewicz was a captain of two-masted schooner
Prince Radziwil equipped with six small guns and two mortars. His ship could be similar to Berbice. The City of Baltimore was founded  in 1729,  and was named after Lord Baltimore, the  governor of the province at the time. In the middle of the eighteenth century, shipbuilders from the port built a large amount of small single and two mast vessels.