MODEL OF THE CONTINENTAL NAVY SLOOP "PROVIDENCE" BY MARK SUTHERLAND
Circa 2020
In ¼" to 1-foot scale. Hull built up from the solid with a painted white bottom, black waist, buff topsides cut and pierced for ten cannons on carriages, and applied sheer strake and rail, all painted black. Planked deck detailed with head post, anchor windlass, deck hatches, pin and fife rails, ladders, companionway, pumps, boxed compass tiller, the Continental Navy flag, etc. Rigged as a sloop with bowsprit, mast, standing and running rigging, etc. Displayed on a pair of brass pedestals on a mahogany base within a wood-trimmed glass case. This model is based on information from John Miller and the painting of the Providence by artist John Mecray. She is authentically painted per the full-size replica.
Case height 28.25". Length 30.25". Width 10".
John Paul Jones' 12-gun sloop "Providence" was a sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy, originally chartered by the Rhode Island General Assembly as "Katy". The ship took part in a number of campaigns during the first half of the American Revolutionary War before being destroyed by her own crew in 1779 to prevent her from falling into the hands of the British after the failed Penobscot Expedition.

Excellent.