On the Slipway

 

HMS Leander

Another busy Sunday but the Napoleonic naval project ploughs onwards nonetheless, with four Third Rate '74's' and a Fourth Rate '50' slipping off the stocks. The latter was an afterthought but will be HMS Leander, which had a very colourful career at one point being captured by the French, then recaptured by the Russians, then returned to service with the Royal Navy. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Leander_(1780)

She will be added to my Inshore / West Indies Squadron, which I'm going to paint first, with the rest of the fleet to follow (eventually). I now have a few more Third Rate '74's', a single '80' and a Second Rate '98' to build, which I'll chip away at over the week.