Gordon Williams
Exhibition-Standard Models made on Commission
Monmouth, UK      +44(0)1600 715013      email:

These models were built on commission from kits,
with various requested modifications & improvements

Le Coureur was a lugger (chasse marée) of the French Royal Navy, built by Denys de Dunkerque and launched in 1776. She is best remembered for her epic battle with the Royal Navy cutter HMS Alert on 17th June 1778, which ended in her capture.
The lugger or chasse marée was the type favoured by French pirates of the Revolution period.

The model was built (with modifications) from the Mamoli kit, at 1:54 scale.

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In 1775 the merchantman Wild Duck was converted to an armed brigantine, renamed USS Lexington, and became part of the Continental Navy prior to the war against England. On April 17, 1776 she captured the sloop Edward, the first British ship to be captured at sea by the Colonists. The next year she fought in the Bay of Biscay, the English Channel and off the Irish Coast. On September 20 1777, during her return from France, she was overtaken by the English cutter HMS Alert. After a fierce battle and badly damaged, she ran out of ammunition and was forced to surrender.

The model was modified from the Mamoli kit, at 1:100 scale.

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Endeavour was a 10-gun Royal Navy bark commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand in 1769-71. Launched in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke, she was purchased by the Navy in 1768 for a scientific mission to the Pacific Ocean, and to explore the seas for the "unknown southern land". Renamed and commissioned as His Majesty's Bark the Endeavour, she departed Plymouth in August 1768, reaching the coast of Australia in April 1770. The voyage lasted three years, and Endeavour slipped into obscurity on her return.
After a varied career partly in private hands, she served briefly as a naval troop transport during the American Revolution and was deliberately scuttled in a blockade of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, in 1778.

The model was built (with modifications) from the Caldercraft kit, at 1:64 scale.

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