Is there a kit available for this ship ? Does anyone know
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Hms invincible 1744
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This would be interesting if there was one. As HMS Invincible was a capture, being a French 74 gun ship built in the Rochefort Naval Dockyard on the River Charente the Ancre website for drawings and such may be of help if you want to give a go at a scratch build. There is the kit for the HMS Bellona which was a 74 but she was English built and looks nothing like any French built ship so useless as a substitute. Good luck!
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I have a book: The Royal Navy's First Invincible 1744-1758 The ship, the wreck, and the recovery. by Brian Lavery
Invincible Conservations (1744-1758) Limited 1988
The book is not a monograph. It is nowhere close to being a monograph. I see it as fluff, filler, small slugs of old wine from many bottles combined into one new bottle.
The lines plans in it are from a French manuscript by Morineau for "a ship 'similar' to the Invincible" and was drawn some years later.
The vessel was built by Pierre Morineau Rochefort early 1740's as a 74. L 1744
Captured by the RN 1747
Lines taken off.
Served in the fleet until wrecked in a storm - Portsmouth 1758
Wreck rediscovered 1979
The as taken off plans are lost.
The plans were used as the basis for the Dublin class 74 1754 7 sisters plus three more modified derivatives
Dublin plans are available as a print.
Shrewsbury_1758 full size digital plans are available as a free download at WIKI Commons
The swimming body may be the same as Invincible but the head and stern are far from anything of French design.
The difference can be seen:
Monarch 74 1747 (Le Monararque) full size digital and large isolated carvings at WIKI Commons
All ten have been saved from the indignity of becoming the subject of a kit so far.
Only the poor ol' Bellona class has been subjected to that indignity. Boy howdy dust pounded into atoms. Even the Dust Bowl fields that were carried away by the wind were not as over plowed.
Invincible Conservations (1744-1758) Limited 1988
The book is not a monograph. It is nowhere close to being a monograph. I see it as fluff, filler, small slugs of old wine from many bottles combined into one new bottle.
The lines plans in it are from a French manuscript by Morineau for "a ship 'similar' to the Invincible" and was drawn some years later.
The vessel was built by Pierre Morineau Rochefort early 1740's as a 74. L 1744
Captured by the RN 1747
Lines taken off.
Served in the fleet until wrecked in a storm - Portsmouth 1758
Wreck rediscovered 1979
The as taken off plans are lost.
The plans were used as the basis for the Dublin class 74 1754 7 sisters plus three more modified derivatives
Dublin plans are available as a print.
Shrewsbury_1758 full size digital plans are available as a free download at WIKI Commons
The swimming body may be the same as Invincible but the head and stern are far from anything of French design.
The difference can be seen:
Monarch 74 1747 (Le Monararque) full size digital and large isolated carvings at WIKI Commons
All ten have been saved from the indignity of becoming the subject of a kit so far.
Only the poor ol' Bellona class has been subjected to that indignity. Boy howdy dust pounded into atoms. Even the Dust Bowl fields that were carried away by the wind were not as over plowed.