Do you need a fast warship for your tabletop naval game? Try out this 12 gun schooner or brigantine The kit features an optional second set of square sails. If you omit the square sails on the main mast you have a topsail schooner, if you choose to use them you have a brigantine.

We offer two versions of the kit, with hulls featuring either 12 Carronades or 12 Long-guns. If you need up close punch the Carronade version might be a good choice. If you want better range for the chase, the Long gun version might be a better choice.

Kit versions:

Captain’s Edition Kits: These are the latest 6MM kits offered by Sea Dog Game Studios and feature MSLA resin 3D printed hulls, masts, shrouds and sails. These kit features an improved resin that has high detail but maintains part flexibility. The goal of the Captain’s Edition is to get a model on the table for gameplay in a faster manner then previous versions. we have two variants to select:

- 6MM scale 12 Gun Schooner / Brigantine - Long Guns

- 6MM scale 12 Gun Schooner / Brigantine - Carronades

Both versions have a hull of approx. 88MM × 28MM at extremes or 84MM × 22MM LOD x BEAM. LOA rigged 135MM x 102MM (approx.)

Ship Information:

A Schooner is characterized by having fore and aft rigged sails on two masts. in the early part of the 1800’s schooners with more masts appeared but this was mostly in merchant service. The more typical two-masted schooner has a foremast a bit shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schooner, also has one or two square sails foremast. In the late 1700’s and early 1800’s Topsail Schooners were often re-rigged as brigantines.

The early brigantines were square sailed on the mainmast and gaff rig fore-and-aft rigged on the main mast as opposed to the brig which had square sails on both mast in addition to the fore-and-aft sail on the mizzen. A later era Brigantine like the one depicted in this kit carries square sails AND fore and aft rigged sails on the main mast as well as the fore. when rigged this way the ship gains a little speed running downwind, and also has some advantages when maneuvering in close quarters for combat. In the early 1800’s these sort of re-rigs happened frequently.

 The term schooner may be related to a Scottish word meaning to ‘skip over water.’ Schooners are a progression of the Dutch gaff rigged sloops. Evidence of them appears in the early 17th century paintings by Dutch marine artists. The earliest known illustration of a schooner like rig appears on a yacht owned by the mayor of Amsterdam dated 1600. We also see them in Amsterdam in 1638 and New Amsterdam in 1627. They are in paintings by Van de Velde (1633–1707) and an engraving by Jan Kip of the Thames at Lambeth, dated 1697, suggest that schooner rig was common in England and Holland by the end of the 17th century. The Royal Transport was an example of a large British-built schooner, launched in 1695 at Chatham.

While the rig type may have had Dutch Origins it was developed heavily in North America. The schooner rig was used for a wide range of purposes, particularly as small merchants, mail packets, and fishermen. With it’s good ability to windward, Schooners were extremely useful as small warships, privateers, and blockade runners.