HMS Rattlesnake 1776

Name: HMS Rattlesnake 1776

• Cat. No. WM:007
• Scale: 1:72
• Lenght: 577 mm
• Width: 228 mm
• Height: 468 mm
• Quantity in package: 1 piece
• Type of packaging: Box (500x350x50 mm)

Laser-Cut Wooden Kit includes:

• all parts laser cut from wood
• arrangement of planks on decks and boards engrave by laser
• laser cutted and profiled desks of planking
• photo-etched brass parts
• gun barrels
• wooden dowels for masts and yards
• blocks, deadeyes and hearts
• metal fittings, wire
• laser cut sails
• ropes of different thickness
• flags
• 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

A cutter is a small single-masted vessel carrying a massive gaff sail as a main source of power, however, topsail, topgallant sail, crossjack, and jib, staysail, foresail helped in attaining even greater speed. Additionally, to improve the steering, a short mast with a lug sail was sometimes furnished at the stern. Cutters were mainly tasked to counter smuggling trade, conduct reconnaissance missions, dispatch messages, etc. Relatively heavy armament and a great speed allowed them to fight vessels of similar type and to deter smugglers. HMS Rattlesnake was launched 7 June 1777. When re-registered as a sloop, 12 miles northwest from Le Havre, after a fierce fight on 14 March 1779, she captured a French vessel Frelon de Dunkerque. Her last activity occurred on Lesser Antilles where the cutter wrecked off Trinidad Island on 11 October 1781. 15 cutters – of 7 classes – were built in England in 1763-81.