HMS Mercury 1779

Name: HMS Mercury

• Cat. No. ZL:006
• Scale: 1:72
• Lenght: 880 mm
• Width: 488 mm
• Height: 660 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 frigate Mercury belonged to the warships of the sixth rank, class Enterprize, armed with 28 cannons. In the years 1748 - 1785, 56 units of this type were built, which were grouped in five classes. Enterprize was the largest class in which 27 frigates were built according to designs by Sir John  Williams. The keel of the Mercury frigate was laid in the Mestaers yard in Thames on 25 March 1778, and it entered service on 24 February 1780. Since 1803, she served the role of a floating battery. In 1808 the existing 9 pounders on the gun deck were replaced with twenty-four 32-pounder carronades. From 1810 she served four years as a "troopship", a transport ship for the army.

The major actions in which the frigate Mercury participated are:
- The gaining of the French frigate Buldog in Ancona on 25 May 1801;
- On 4 April 1808, the attack on a spanish convoy near Cadiz  together with the frigate Alceste and the sloop Grasshopper - seven ships were captured and twenty destroyed; 
- Acquiring the French gunboat Leda in Porto di Rourigno on 4 April 1809;
- Involved in the attack on Porto Pesaro on 23 April 1809;
- On 2 May 1809, she was involved in obtaining 12 units of coastal fleet near Porto Cesanatico. 
In 1814 frigate Mercury was dismantled at Woolwich.