The models range from ships’ boats to a 100-gun ship of the line, so called because opposing fleets lined up to fire at each other. The largest models have hulls four feet long. Colonel Rogers ...

Nicknamed "smashers", these close range guns fired heavy cannonballs, inflicting maximum damage to enemy ships and creating showers of deadly splinters. Service record: In 1802, Le Redoutable was the ...

Wearing the flag of Vice-Adm Cuthbert Collingwood, at the Battle of Trafalgar (October 21, 1805), the 100 gun ship-of-the-line HMS Royal Sovereign led Lord Nelson’s lee column against the combined ...