HMS Victory Bow Section — Handmade Cutaway Display Model

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The forward section of Nelson's flagship, built as a sectional model — beakhead, figurehead, headrails and the forward gun decks, cut away where the rest of the ship would continue .Details Handcrafted sectional model of the bow Beakhead, figurehead and headrail detail Forward gun decks with cast cannon Bowsprit and rigging detail Mounted and ready to display Why a sectionA sectional model does something a whole ship cannot: it gives you the detail of a very large model in the space of a small one. At full length, this level of carving and gun-deck work would need a piece several feet long.The bow is also the most interesting end. Victory's beakhead carried the royal arms, the headrails curved forward to the figurehead, and the whole assembly projected ahead of the hull — structurally awkward, visually spectacular, and the part of the ship an approaching enemy saw first.The shipA 104-gun first rate launched at Chatham in 1765, and Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar in 1805. She has been in commission since 1778 and is preserved in dry dock at Portsmouth. Show more