The bow of HMS Trincomalee at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Hartlepool. Trincomalee is a Leda-class frigate launched in 1817 in Bombay for the Royal Navy. As such, she is the second oldest warship afloat in the world today, after USS Constitution. HMS Victory would be the eldest but she is in dry dock now.
She is named for the Battle of Trincomalee fought off Ceylon in 1782, and the figurehead represents Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia, the master shipbuilder of Bombay at the time she was laid down.
This model was captured with just 40 images taken with an Olympus DSLR walking around the Hartlepool historic dockyard. This did stretch Metashape’s ability somewhat with all the rigging and stark white paint: I’ve chopped a lot of naff mesh out. I’d love to make a more detailed model some time.
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