Kit of the La Amistad

Is anyone aware of a kit available of La Amistad?

Autumn23 said:

Is anyone aware of a kit available of La Amistad?

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do you mean this schooner?



or the replica?

The slave ship. I guess it’s the scrooner

The movie used the Pride of Baltimore II and the Californian. Model Shipways has a kit of the Baltimore.

Are you interested in the Amistad itself, or just a slaver in general? The Ancre monograph on the Aurore "negrier" i believe would make an absolutely fantastic, historical, educational if not a truly meaningful project. https://ancre.fr/en/monograph/24-monographie-de-l-aurore-navire-negrier-1784.html

Jeff

Following up on this - does anyone know of a specific kit for La Amistad or where one could get ship plans for it?

The question that occurs often when discussing a vessel of historical significance is whether the available information is specific enough to make an accurate model or would the result be a speculative model of the general type of vessel? To illustrate the difference, one could make an accurate model of the USS Constitution; there is a lot of information. One cannot make an accurate model of the Mayflower; we know very little about her specifics. As suggested in posts 4 and 5, there are opportunities for making an interesting model of a 19th century fast schooner. Fair winds!

I believe that the Amistad was a small schooner of the Baltimore Clipper type. See post #2 above. The vessel studied in the Ancre Monograph is a different type of vessel and of much earlier design. Howard Chapelle has researched the slave trade and its vessels. I would buy copies of both his The Baltimore Clipper and The Search for Speed Under Sail. Copies of drawings from these books are available from the Smithsonian Institution.

Roger

There is a replica schooner of Amistad. I am not sure how accurate she is.

Occre has a model of the captured slaver Dos Amigos, the same type of ship (topsail schooner) with the same dimensions as the replica and from the same timeframe.