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Amerigo Vespucci Tribute Model Ships
£84.00 £78.10
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Client References for the  Amerigo Vespucci Model Ship.

Hi Thank you for the model ship.  It looks great and my husband loves it!  A couple of the small lifeboats need repairing but apart from that it arrived in good condition, especially as it probably gets thrown around in transit! 
Your service is exceptional and I would have no hesitation in recommending you.(UK Client) August 2008.

Thank you so much, we have received our model boat. It is wonderful.  Best regards.
(Hungarian Client for the Consulate-General of the Republic of Singapore) May 2005.

My Amerigo Vespcuci, Golden Hind & Mayflower (1 Metre (3ft 4”inch) Models), I must say WOW! Very beautiful work. God will love you more for this.Thank you, (Swiss Client, CEO of a large Swiss company) September 2005.

History of the Amerigo Vespucci:
 
In the late 1920s, the Italian navy began construction of two ships for training their officer cadets at Sea, the ships were called '
Cristoforo Colombo and Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci was named for the Florentine explorer for whom the sixteenth century German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller, named the newly discovered land masses to the West.

Her full lines are in sharp contrast to the majority of sail-training vessels. A letter from a Norwegian submarine commander having encountered the two sister ships reads as follows:

“On breaking surface, I took a quick look around and got a shock. I had gone down in the 20th century and come up again in the 18th century, for there stood in front of me, two majestic men-of-war, under a press of canvas and sailing proudly.

Following the Second World War, her sister ship was acquired by the Soviet Union. Amerigo Vespucci resumed her sail-training mission for the  Italian Navy well into the 1990s.

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