Details
With bound masts, yards with stun's booms and foot ropes, standing and running rigging with scale blocks, carved lion figurehead, fine deck details including hair rails, anchors with wooden stocks, catheads, belaying rails and pins, bitts, balustrading, companionways, finely cut gratings and hatches, three ship's boats in chocks with bottom boards, thwarts and oars, capstan, double ship's wheel, upper and main deck guns in carriages, the hull, copper clad to the waterline, with open gun ports and decorated stern and quarter windows, stained brown and black with natural wood decks, gilt highlights, mounted on two turned brass columns, glazed wood framed display case
2614 in. (66.6 cm.) high; 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide; 14 in. (35.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 10 November 1994, lot 292.
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Lot Essay

H.M.S. Beaulieu, originally of 40 guns, later 48 guns, was built at Adams yard, Bucklershard, Hampshire, purchased by the Royal Navy and launched 4 May 1791. This 1,020 ton vessel served the Leeward Islands Station, was part of the capture of Martinique and Saint Lucia in 1794, served on the North American Station in 1795 and was part of the North Sea Fleet by 1797. She was broken up at Deptford Dockyard in 1809.

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