„Halcon“ – the Spanish schooner

The Baltimore clippers were built as small high-speed sail merchant ships for the US coastal and Caribbean waters. Their hull contours were very sharp, with a V-shaped mid-span below the waterline, a sharply curved bow, a transom stern and stern-sloping masts. The origin of this type of ship is unknown, but hulls of a similar concept were built in Jamaica and Bermuda, and the hulls of the Bermuda sloop were wider, than the Jamaican, even deeper, than those, built by the Americans. At the end of the 18th century, Baltimore clippers were popular not only in the United States as merchant ships, but also in Great Britain and continental Europe. The Royal Navy found schooners to be of very limited use during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, as they were unstable artillery platforms due to their design, designed to produce maximum speeds relative to their size. In addition, the schooner's sail equipment greatly interferes, when sailing in reverse, which affects the decrease in maneuverability in battle. This type of ship, adopted in the arsenal after the wars, was intended for the pursuit of slave merchant ships. They were perfect for transporting perishable goods, which often took up a lot of space but were expensive. These ships were also used by slave traders transporting "black goods" from West Africa. Ships, hunting them, received privateer letters and served as privateers in the American Revolutionary War. In the War of 1812, merchant schooners were too small and too slow to escape the British blockade, so larger and faster versions of them were built, the Baltimore clippers.

A medium-sized, not very complex, well-designed and maximally detailed model of an interesting ship for intermediate modelers. But even a beginner and a modeler with little experience, working under the supervision of a more experienced colleague, will assemble this model perfectly, but it should be simplified a little. The sails are double-sided printed on thin paper, the hull is designed with two cladings: "black" and primary, excellent instructions.