3 Ship models Royal William (1719); Warship; First rate; 100 guns, Relaxing classical music

3 Ship models Royal William (1719) Model, 1 Scale: 1:60. A Navy Board full hull model of the Royal William (1719), a 100gun threedecker ship of the line. The model is decked, equipped and rigged. This model, which is one of three full hull models of this vessel in the NMM collection, is probably a preliminary design as it differs from the completed vessel. It was rerigged in 1925 in the Royal Naval Museum. The Royal William was an early 18thcentury threedecker, one of six first rates in the class of the largest warships. It was 175 feet long, with a 50 feet beam and weighed 1918 tons burden. It was launched at Portsmouth in September 1719. It had a nominal complement of 800 men. It would have carried twentyeight 32pound guns on its gun deck, twentyeight 24pounders on its middle deck, twentyeight 12pounders on its upper deck, along with twelve 6pounders on its quarterdeck and four on its forecastle. The Royal William was never fitted out for sea as a 100gunner, howeve