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	Atlantis Atlantis is typical of the brightly colored small wooden fishing boats that worked the waters off the coast of Brittany from the early 1950s to the late 1970s. Some are still in operation today, hauling in the daily catch for local markets and restaurants


	BLUENOSE II Built in 1963, the Bluenose II is the last of the tall schooners. She's an exact replica of the original Bluenose, a Canadian fishing schooner that outraced New England's fastest fishing vessels in the Twenties and Thirties, landed record catches of fish, and even ran rum during Prohibition.


	FALCON This American brigantine belonged to a small fleet of merchant boats at the end of the eighteenth century. During wartime it was converted into a fighting vessel and armed with ten cannons. It ended its sailing days serving as a coastguard.


	H.M.S. ENDEAVOUR In 1768 Lieutenant James Cook left England in the re-fitted supply ship Endeavour. On his first expedition he discovered Australia, mapped new Zealand, Tahiti and the Society Islands. Upon his return, cook advised the admiralty that no other type of vessel should be sent to explore distant lands.


	Harvey New Release of this popular kit. New Scale 1:58 and PRE-SEWN SAILS are included. The Baltimore Clippers could be painted in disreputable colours, with their sails torn or with pitch everywhere, but they were always elegant and fast into the wind. These ships dominated the seas in the late 19th century, when the first steamers started to do battle with their heroic predecessors.