Thanks for the kind comments. Regarding the rigging, I more or less just followed the instructions in the kit, I also used some photos of the Model Shipways wood model (which the Pyro kit was based on) as reference, along with a couple of contemporary drawings of the real ship.
One question to those with more knowledge of sailing ship rigging: What type of rig/mast arrangement is this? I think it's a brigantine (two masts with the foremast square-rigged and the mainmast fore-and-aft rigged) - but I'm not totally sure.
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From comparing the kit dimensions to those of the real ship, it's roughly 1/120 scale. Definitely somewhere between 1/100 and 1/150, anyway!
Other than the moulded sails attached to the yards (fixable with a sharp knife + lots of filing/sanding) and a few other annoyances like the crude pin-rails moulded onto the bulwark interiors (luckily I had some replacement pin rails left over from a Heller kit) it isn't a bad kit considering its age, though it is nowhere near the standard of the Kearsarge or other large Revell sailing ships. I definitely wouldn't recommend it to the casual modeller, but for anyone with an interest in early steam warships or US Civil War ships, it's definitely worth building if you can find the kit at a reasonable price (not an easy task, though!)