Product Description
This high quality, highly detailed, expert level, Christian Radich tall training ship model is semi-assembled and ready for display (not a kit). Some light assembly is required you will need to attach the ship model to it's base stand and attach the bowsprit into it's position, instructions and materials are included (please see images, text instructions included too). Because this model is semi-built we are able to ship the model in a much smaller package and pass the savings in shipping onto you.
This Windjammer Christian Radich training ship model was specially designed & built by the plank on bulkhead method (joining multiple small pieces of wood like Rosewood, Mahogany, Teak and other exotic tropical wood together on the hull). The sails are hand-stitched and made of fine linen, the un-furled square sails have a slight full blown (under sail) shape to them. The tall training ship model is built exactly to scale as the original Christian Radich was with many details. The task required skillful craftsmen hundreds of hours to accomplish.
This beautiful Christian Radich model features, two tone colors white and blue painted on the hull, plank on frame, and three decks. The front bowsprit and three large masts are connected securely using advanced rigging and lines painstakingly knotted and fastened by hand. Metal anchors and a wooden rudder are visible on the front and rear of the ship. On the deck, there are metal cranes, authentic hand-built lifeboats with ribs and planks, wooden barrels, wooden light beacons, wooden windlass, wooden cabin, and many other spectacular ornaments.
The Christian Radich was Launched in 1937, just only two years before the start of World War II, the sail-training ship was named for a patron of the Christiania (later Oslo) Schoolship Association who left a bequest of 90,000 Norwegian crowns in 1915 for the building of a schoolship.
The ship made one short cruise in 1938, followed the next year by her first transatlantic voyage, to New York for the World's Fair. Christian Radich returned to Norway in late 1939, only to be taken over by German occupation forces at Horten in April 1940. When the Norwegian Navy refused to run a sail-training program in the Baltic for German naval cadets, the Radich was used as a submarine depot ship. War's end found her capsized at Flensburg, Germany, stripped of virtually all metal and fittings except her shell plating and decks. After £70,000 worth of salvage and repair at her builders in Sandefjord, she resumed sail training in 1947.
One of the most regular participants in tall ships races and other events in Europe and North America, by the start of her second half century under sail, Christian Radich had been both witness to and a catalyst for the remarkable resurgence of interest in sail training and traditional sail generally worldwide.
The model measures 37" long from bow to stern. It's a fabulous ship model that will be a conversation piece for any room or office.
Highlights about this model tall ship:
- 100% hand built from scratch using “plank on bulkhead” construction method
- Included with this expert level tall ship model is a solid wood base with a brass name plate
- Size: 37" overall length x 30" height x 11" width
- Condition: New (semi-assembled)
- Hundreds of hours where required to finish this model sailboat
- Completed model contains thousands of details created by skillful master craftsmen
- Made of finest wood like Rosewood, Mahogany, Teak and other exotic tropical wood
- Chrome and brass fittings and ornaments constitute the excellence of this model
- Extensive research through original plans and pictures make this model authentic
- This model went through a demanding quality control process before leaving the workshop
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