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Endeavour 30":
Our Endeavour model ship is modeled and handcrafted using various high-quality grade materials by our renowned master craftsmen. Our model ships are uniquely designed and manufactured using the latest innovations and techniques applied in the over-all manufacturing and operation process procedures. The Endeavour model ship’s parts including the weaponries, armament, guns and hulls are extremely accurate and precise based on the original blueprint of the actual ship. It will fascinate anyone who gazes at it for its remarkable and exceptional quality. The Endeavour model ship comes with an extremely durable base stand marked with the ship’s official insignia.
Endeavour History:
Endeavour pioneered the Quadrilateral genoa, a two clewed headsail with immense sail area and power. It also has a larger and better designed spinnaker but Sopwith was disappointed for poor crewing.
Endeavour passed through many hands over the next 46 years; the yacht was sold to a scrap merchant in 1947 only to be saved by another buyer before itsscheduled demolition. Endeavour sank in the Medina River in Cowes. Again, Endeavour was bought for ten pounds sterling by two carpenters in the seventies, patching the holes in her hull with plastic bags and got it to float again. In the early eighties, Endeavour was stationed in an abandoned seaplane base in southern England. The Endeavour suffered a complete wreck, a rusting and forlorn hulk with no keel, rudder, ballast or interior.
In 1984, Endeavour was bought by an American yachtswoman named Elizabeth Meyer and it took five years to rebuild the yacht. Endeavour's hull was restored and the missing keel and ballast were rebuilt and a new rudder was fabricated. Endeavour sailed again on June 22, 1989, for the first time in 52 years.
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