Grand Turk (frigate)
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Sixth-rate
Sixth rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for small warships mounting between 20 and 24 nine-pounder guns on a single deck, sometimes with guns on the upper works and sometimes without.-Rating:...
frigate
Frigate
A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.In the 17th century, the term was used for any warship built for speed and maneuverability, the description often used being "frigate-built"...
, that was designed to represent a generic Nelson age warship replica, with its design greatly inspired by HMS Blandford (1741). She was laid down in Marmaris, Turkey
Marmaris
Marmaris is a port city and a tourist resort on the Mediterranean coast, located in southwest Turkey, in Muğla Province.Marmaris' main source of income is tourism. Little is left of the sleepy fishing village that Marmaris was just a few decades ago after a construction boom in the 1980s...
in 1996, primarily to provide a replica of a frigate, for the production of the ITV
ITV
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series adapted from the famous novels about Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower
Hornblower (TV series)
Hornblower is the umbrella title of a series of television drama programmes based on C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars....
by Cecil Scott Forester. Nowadays the tall ship
Tall ship
A tall ship is a large, traditionally-rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques. "Tall Ship" can also be defined more specifically by an organization, such as for a race or festival....
is used mainly in sailing events, for corporate or private charter, and for receptions in its spacious saloon or on its deck. The ship is currently based in Saint Malo Brittany
Brittany
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and has been re-named "L'Etoile du Roy" - "The King's Star".
Size and Power
While L'Etoile du Roy has a deck that is lined with cast iron smooth-bore cannonCannon
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, a frigate was neither large enough nor sufficiently well armed to fight in the "line of battle
Line of battle
In naval warfare, the line of battle is a tactic in which the ships of the fleet form a line end to end. A primitive form had been used by the Portuguese under Vasco Da Gama in 1502 near Malabar against a Muslim fleet.,Maarten Tromp used it in the Action of 18 September 1639 while its first use in...
". Her function would have been primarily to scout for the main fleet, attack enemy commerce, giving support where necessary, or carry messages.
The hull is made of iroko planking on a couples mahogany glued on barrotage is pine glulam. The overall length is 46.3 m waterline length of 29.6 m, the midship of 10.4 m and draft of 3.4 m. The rigging of three-masted square, giving a vertical clearance of 35.6 m, can deploy 800 square meters of canvas. The frigate has all the modern equipment, windlass and hydraulic winches ... she has two diesel engines of 400 horsepower (Kelvin TAS8) which consumes 1850 liters / day to 900 rpm (speed 8.5 knots), a bow thruster Hydraulic 60 horses and no less than 4 generators (Ford 110, 80, 70 and 35 kVA).
Appearances
HMS Indefatigable (1784)
HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She had a long career under several distinguished commanders, serving throughout the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars...
in the TV series Hornblower
Hornblower (TV series)
Hornblower is the umbrella title of a series of television drama programmes based on C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars....
, although the historical Indefatigable was a larger ship. She also served in the same TV series as the French ship Papillon. On 28 June 2005 she stood in for HMS Victory
HMS Victory
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is most famous as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805....
, Nelson
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
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's flagship
Flagship
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at the International Fleet Review
International Fleet Review
For a full list of ships present, see List of ships present at International Fleet Review, 2005The International Fleet Review took place on 28 June 2005, as part of the Trafalgar 200 celebrations to commemorate the 200th year after the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.- 2005 Review Line-up :During the...
off Portsmouth
Portsmouth
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(GB), commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar
Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars ....
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Film and TV credits
- Hornblower (TV series)Hornblower (TV series)Hornblower is the umbrella title of a series of television drama programmes based on C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars....
, 1998-2003. - Longitude - Granada Productions, A&E, 2000.
- Monsieur N, 2003.
- To the ends of the Earth - BBC, Tightrope Pictures, 2005.
Current Location
The frigate was purchased by Bob Escoffier of the Etoile Marine Croisieres, which already operates a number of traditional sailing ships: Étoile de France, Étoile Molène, Étoile Polaire, Naire Maove et' and la goélette-aviso de Brest La Recouvrance (in partnership with its owner, the SOPAB). The final sale price was not disclosed.After being moored in Whitby
Whitby
Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a combined maritime, mineral and tourist heritage, and is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey where Caedmon, the...
for over a decade, the Grand Turk sailed out of her home harbour for last time at 4:00am 16th March 2010 to her current location in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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See also
- HMS Surprise - Replica of HMS Rose (1757), built in 1970.
- Ship replicaShip replicaA ship replica is a reconstruction of a no longer existing ship. Replicas can range from authentically reconstructed, fully seaworthy ships, to ships of modern construction that give an impression of an historic vessel...
(including a list of ship replicas)