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SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The Naval Academy Museum Exhibit

SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The Naval Academy Museum Exhibit.

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SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The Naval Academy Museum Exhibit

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  1. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The Naval Academy Museum Exhibit • As a post-script, the Naval Academy Museum has a permanent exhibit devoted to the East Indiamen. It includes a large world map showing the trade routes by Dutch, English, and French Indiamen, along with images of the principal spices obtained in the East Indies.

  2. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The Naval Academy Museum Exhibit • The Museum display contains several images of British East Indiamen, a log book, a medal, and three contemporary dockyard models from the late 1700s and early 1800s.

  3. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The Naval Academy Museum Exhibit • The book shown here is the log book of the HEIC ship (British East Indiaman) Princess Amelia kept during her two-year long voyage to the Orient in 1792-94.

  4. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The Naval Academy Museum Exhibit • This is a contemporary scale model of the HEIC ship Lord Thurlow, an 800-ton British East India-man of 1789-1801. During her career she made six successful voyages to the East. [Model No. 44]

  5. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The Naval Academy Museum Exhibit • This is an unidentified British East Indiaman of approximately 800 tons from the 1780s. By this time Indiamen of all nations were designed with a much boxier hull shape than the earlier Duc de Duras/Bonhomme Richard. The upper works, too, were noticeably different. [Model No. 74]

  6. SO482 – Bonhomme Richard Project The Naval Academy Museum Exhibit • The third of the Naval Academy Museum’s three British East Indiaman represents a ship of about 1100 tons from c1805. The model’s almost straight sides, bluff bow, and continuous spar deck reflect changes to the design of Indiamen chanpioned by the British during the Napoleonic Wars. [Model No. 36]

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