BRIEF DESCRIPTION

This model is 100% handcrafted from beginning using “Plank On Frame” construction method as real boat and ship with hundred of man-hours to complete one model with plan drawings or pictures.

Model is not kit but fully assembled and ready for immediate presentation or display.Model will be extremely well packaged in a sturdy wooden crate and put in a carton box for maximum protection.

HISTORY

Soleil Royal was a French ship of the line, built in Brest and launched in 1669, the flagship of Admiral Tourville.

Named in honor of the Sun King, Louis XIV, Le Soleil Royal was one of the most powerful ships of her day. She was said to be a good sailing ship and her decorations were amongst the most beautiful and elaborate of all baroque flagships.

Le Soleil Royal departed Brest on 22 June 1690, spent three days in Camaret-sur-Mer before sailing to Isle of Wight. In July 1690, Tourville's fleet of seventy ships met a combined English and Dutch force of fifty-seven ships off Beachy Head. On May 20, 1692 Tourville met an Anglo-Dutch fleet of eighty-eight ships off Pointe de Barfleur. In the battle, Le Soleil Royal was so badly damaged that Tourville was forced to transfer his flag to Ambiteux the next day. Le Soleil Royal was forced into Cherbourg where she was destroyed by English fireships.

The remains of the Soleil Royal now lie buried beneath a parking space next to the Arsenal.