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Soleil Royal - 86cm by Premier Ship Models
Category : ship, sailboat, runabout models
1041.00€ VAT Incl. Shipment not included*Shipment is free only for Delivery in France above 100 euros. Yet Quirao does deliver worldwide. For all other countries, you can see the shipment fees if you add the product to your basket and select a country of delivery. (Receive also a Discount Voucher of 42€)
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Named in honour of the Sun King, Louis XIV, Le Soleil Royal was one of the most powerful ships of her day. As flagship of the revitalised French Navy brought into being by the Minister of Marine Jean- Baptiste Colbert, she was sumptuously decorated with wooden carvings depicting a variety of motifs emblematic of the French monarch. As the sculptures recovered from the Swedish warship Wasa prove, such lavish ornament was not uncommon in seventeenth-century warships. Charles Le Brun’s drawings of the Statuary for le Soleil Royal are in the Louvre.
Details of the first decade of Le Soleil Royal’s service are obscure.
After her re-fit in 1889, she flew the flag of Vice Admiral Anne-Hilarion de Contentin, Comte de Tourville, Admiral of the French fleet.
In July 1690, Tourville led a fleet of seventy ships out of Brest and on July 10, he met a combined English and Dutch fleet of fifty-seven ships off Beachy Head.
The English and Dutch fleet lost eight ships, whilst the French lost none in a Victory called Beveziers.
Two years later, the position was reversed. Tourville with a fleet of only forty-four ships was ordered to set sail from Brest on May 12, 1692. His order was to clear the English Channel for Louis XIV’s invasion force of thirty thousand men assembled near Cherbourg.
On May 20, Tourville again met an Anglo-Dutch fleet of eighty-seven ships. By increasing the distance between his ships in line ahead, Tourville prevented his fleet from being encircled and outflanked.
But Le Soleil Royal was so badly damaged, that Tourville was forced to transfer his flag to Ambitieux the next day.
Le Soleil Royal, and two other French vessels, was forced into Cherbourg where they ran aground and were eventually destroyed.
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