The unique, one of a kind design of her is a special custom build.
She has a higher crew capacity for boarding, a stronger hull, a large rudder, for turning and more guns than any other ship in her class, 190 of them to be exact, even more than original design.
She comes pre-equipped with bow stern cannons as well as falconets, and will annihilate anything that crosses her path.
The Royal Navy planned to build what have been Britain and possibly the world’s largest ship of war, the HMS Duke of Kent.
This four-decked, 170-gunned Man o’ War First Rate would have been larger than any contemporary British, French or Spanish ship of the line at that point of time.
The original design was proposed by Joseph Tucker, However, sadly she was never built.
Four years after the Battle of Trafalgar and the fall of the Santisima Trinidad to a much smaller and less heavily armed vessel, prompted reconsideration for the construction of this ship.
With the increasingly rapid rise in the era of steam and ironclad war vessel in a way serves a reminder of unfulfilled ambitions that never materialized as a result of the desire for power and control, long live the Golden Age of Sail.
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HMS Duke of Kent - Statistics
HMS Duke of Kent - Front
HMS Duke of Kent - Stern
