Bel Espoir II
Description
Training ship- Prince Louis II
Model numbered – delivered with a certificate of authenticity.
Built in 1944 at the Svendborg shipyard in Denmark, the schonner was launched as the “Neat S” was initially used for trading around the Baltic Sea. After, she was used for Fishing and then renamed ‘Peder Most’ and used for animal transportation between Hambourg and Copenhagen.
In 1955, she was acquired by the British ‘Outward Bound Trust’ for use as a sail training ship for young people, later renamed Prince Louis II
The schooner Bell Espoir II was acquired in 1968 by «Amis de l’association Jeudi – Dimanche» (AJD), an organisation founded by a former prison chaplain Michel Jaouen in 1954 and dedicated to the rehabilitation of drug addicts and young offenders
Size
Scale
Finish
Working time
85cm
1/45e
Rosewood
240 H
85cm
1/45e
Painted
260 H
For the pleasure to smell the smell of the liquid bees-wax, a light pasage annual on the wood; for the dust removal, if you possess one sandbank – hairdryer ( cold air) biweekly will be completed. If, unfortunately, you broke sometimes something on your model, to contacted the Association of close Designer from your home.
Each of our models is numbered. Each model is unique, thanks to its entirely handcrafted nature (every small part is made by hand or on a lathe, in wood, aluminum, copper, etc.), the shade of its rosewood, etc. A certificate of authenticity is enclosed with each model.
Since 1984, very numerous collectors rely on us: LIMITED COMPANY Prince Albert of Monaco, Realm of Spain, Head of state and of governments, Ambassador, admiralty, personalities of the world of the arts and the business, Enlightened amateur private, numerous museums.
