Four years of work produced this scratch built model of the light frigate PANDORA, made by Niall Chalwin Counihan. He posted his progress in building this model on Facebook.
The PANDORA, was a 24 gun sixth rate built at the Depotford shipyard in 1779. The 20 and 24 gun class of Royal Navy frigates were the smallest regularly commanded by a Post Captain, and were known as post ships. Her first tour of duty was in the Channel Service during the theat of invasion by the combined fleets of France and Spain. Later, PANDORA was employed as convoy escort between England and Quebec, then as a lone cruiser, she captured the American privateer JACK, at the outbreak of the American War of Independence. In concert with another British frigate, PANDORA added more captures of American privateers and merchant ships. At the end of the war, she was placed in Ordinary at Chatham for seven years. In August of 1790, the First Lord of the Admirtalty on learning of the BOUNTY mutiny, decided to send PANDORA in persuit of the mutineers. After reaching Tahiti, 14 of the mutineers were apprehended. Four of the mutineers were drowned when PANDORA ran aground onthe Great Barrier Reef on the East Coast of Australia The surviving 10 mutineers were returned to Portmouth and court marshalled. Three were hung, the rest paroned. The site of the wreck was recenty discovered by a team led by Ron Coleman, curator, Maritime History and Archaeology of the Queensland Museum, Australia.
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