Construction of Sultanah

Sultanah

Sultanah is a master piece, a prominent achievement in terms of technical and historical accuracy. Every detail was carefully designed and manufactured to be aesthetically pleasant and to reproduce at scale the information found in epochal documentation.

The geometrical design of Sultanah was based on a half hull model of a similar ship from the same type and period. The hull has two layers of different species of timber ( Swiss steamed pear wood and pure ebony) fixed upon a maritime plywood structure which guaranties the stability of the planking for centuries. The model is fully coppered under the water line and has more than 1100 scaled down copper sheets. The copper was coated with a varnish used in the automobile industry to prevent oxidation. The canons are scaled down replicas of XIX' 12 pounders Bloumefield pattern casted in light metal. Metal fittings are made of brass and darkened with acid. The masts are of pear wood and the yards are of ebony. They both were turned in a precision lathe machine. The blocks are functional and the ropes were made in a home maid precision rope walk in order to have the rigging precisely at scale. The figure head was 3D milled and hand carved in wood.

It took me four years and a half to complete Sultanah.

The model's dimensions are the following:
Extreme length ( from the taffrail to the neck of the figure head) 1,51 m
Length with rigging: 2,15 m
Maximum height: 1,70 m
Extreme breadth: 0,35 m
Length of the main yard: 0,85 m
Scale: 1/24

SULTANAH IS WAITING FOR YOU AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM - SULTANATE OF OMAN