8/22/2016

HMS MACEDONIAN
A Radio-Controlled 1:36 Scale Model

Frigate model
Lacedaemonian, 38, 1812
A model of a frigate very similar to Macedonian in
the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England

This page contains notes, designs, ideas, sketches, or more detailed views into some of the items going into this model.


Plan drawn by H.I.Chapelle from
The History of the
American Sailing Navy.
Plan of the HMS Lively, class namesake.
Figurehead of Alexander the Great.

Lively class frigate Bacchante draught dated 1809.
Compare with Chapelle drawing of Macedonian
Bacchante at Deptford c. 1811
Center deck sections of model removed to show structure.
Mac's main hatch will be made this way, with gratings, but with squared corners.

A model of the Lacedaemonian, 38, 1812 in 1:48
A Leda class frigate very close in appearance to Macedonian.
Model in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England.

The rudder.
Tansoms and quarter galleries of Nisus and Menelaus.
The model's transom, pure conjecture.

Spar dimensions Excel spreadsheet based on length of gundeck and beam per Lee's.		 . .