Ships Figureheads

Images from the workshop of Andy Peters – Ships Carver   Contact Andy Peters

Queen of the Sea

A poem written by Teri Flynn for the HMS Chesapeake Exhibition Contact teriflynn

HMS Arethusa

The figurehead from the HMS Arethusa a 50 gun frigate launched at Pembroke dockyard on the 20th June 1849. The fourth ship to the carry the name, the first, originally named ‘Arethuse’ was captured from the French almost a century before.

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Hermione

Major General La Fayette’s frigate ‘Hermione’ la frégate de la liberté.

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HMS Chesapeake

HMS CHESAPEAKE a 4th rate steam frigate built at Chatham in 1855, to replace the earlier USS CHESAPEAKE which was captured from the Americans at Boston Bay in 1813.

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