• The models published in this page are historical vessels corresponding to former and existing vessels that represents part of the history. Please, do not repaint or modifie the shape or size of models listed. To build a new ship or scenery, you may use the elements related in "scenery elements" and "ship elements". 
• All ships are optimiced to use the minimum vertices and triangles as far as I consider that the model does not loose the original shape. Nevertheles, it can be modified to reduce former parameters increasing the speed but loosing part of the original shape.

NEW

FRIGATE "F-100"

The new Frigate of the F-100 class is a escort ship of average type, designed in Spain, able to operate in coastal waters and high seas. She emphasizes being a moderate frigate displacement that includes a very advanced battle system, made up of antiaircraft, antisubmarine, antisurface and electronic warfair.

Her main characteristics are: Displacement 5.802 metric ton. Length 146 ms. Breath 18,6 ms. Draft 4,84 ms. Propulsion: 2 turbines-2 Propellers. Speed 27 knots, Helicopters: 2

B/C "CASTILLO DE LA MOTA"

This is the last ship I was like master. Unfortunatly, now it does not exist.
This is my contribution to many seamans using your simulator as a way to remember former times.
But also, I think she is an important model to consider your VS a simulator as a real simulator for seaman students using it like a training tool .
The behaviour is quite similar to the real one. 

It has been Optimiced and includes new pannels.

Download here ( 2.2 MB )

----------- Revised and Super Duper on 28th-02-02 --------------

FRIGATE "SANLUCAR"

The Frigate "SANLUCAR" is a type of warship designed in the 70's.
This model does not reflect any particular existing ship.
It is a dynamic model in which weapons are not activated.

It has been Optimiced .

Download here ( 1.8 MB )

CRAFTCARRIER "ANDALUCIA"

The Craftcarrier "ANDALUCIA" is a new generation of european multipurpose craftcarriers together with british "Invincible", italian Giuseppe Garibaldi" and spanish "Príncipe de Asturias" using "ski-jump" to optimice the takeoff of planes.

This model does not reflect a particular one of this but a mixture of the three models.

To optimice the speed of the mathematical model, you may eliminate the "harrier" and/or "helicopter" on fly-deck.

Download here( 2.2 MB )

STS "TARTESSOS"

The Sail-Trainig ship "TARTESSOS" belongs to a new generation of sailing ships designed for apprentice officers training. The ship belongs to a Barquentine-Goulet type and the project of the hull and sails has been inspired on different sailing ships type and no on a specific model.

----------- New release 2.0 on 11st-05-02 --------------

Download here ( 0.8 MB )

STS "JUAN SEBASTIAN DE ELCANO"

The name of this ship came from Juan Sebastian de Elcano, who was the first to circumnavigate the globe toguether with 17 other spanish seamen. This fine schooner is the Spanish Sail-trainig ship, steel hull, four masted and 2400 sqr.mts of sails.

After more than 70 years of existence, this brig-schooner continues sailing. She is 94 meters length, 13 bread and 3,700 tons of displacement, with more than 250 men on board. She already takes million miles sailed (almost 2 million km.).

Download here ( 0.8 MB )

GOULETTE "LARRY PAINE"

Modern schooner goulete type  ''LARRY PAINE''.  In memorial of my good friend Larry Paine.

Download here ( 0.8 MB )

This model has been original designed by:

and it has been adapted for V.S. by:

This vessel was built by Mateo Mullan, Pedro de Acosta and Ignacio Mullan in the "Arsenal de la Havana (Cuba)" shipyard, on 1769. It was comanded by the Admiral "Don Baltazar Hidalgo de Cisneros’’, "The Magnificent" and presumably she was sink on 1805, near Cape Camarinal.

In the 18th Century, there was the following three  bridges Spanish vessels:

Type Real Felipe by Gaztañeta,1 unit 1732
Type Santísima Trinidad by Mateo Mullan, 1 unit 1769
Type Purísima Concepción by Gautier, 2 unit 1779-1783
Type Santa Ana by Romero Landa, 8 unit 1784-1794

She was initially projected as a ship of hundred and eighteen guns and inside the norms of the English system brought to Spain by the British manufacturers who came our country, thanks to the proposals and administrations of "Don Jorge Juan". 

In the beginning, she was a three bridges ship of the line and although some historical sources gives her 112, 116,or 118 guns, the truth was that the most diffused one attributes her 120, distributed in the following format: 30 guns of 36 pounds; 32 of 24; 32 of 18 and 26 of 8. 

Before "Trafalgar" battle, they mounted other four mortar  in high deck, with a total of 140 guns. 

She sanks when sighting "El Peñón"(Gibraltar), the following day of Trafalgar battle, the 22nd of October 1805, finishing this way her risky 35 year-old life to the service of the Spanish Navy.  

Among her multiple actions of war, it is the capture of an English convoy of 51 ships in 1780. In 1772 she was incorporated to the Squad of the Mediterranean participating in the second siege of Gibraltar British Colony. She intervenes in the combats of Espartel and San Vicente. In 1797, she participates in the Battle of San Vicente (Feb-14th.), beginning combat with the British ship of 100 gun CAPTAIN, commanded by Nelson, and CULLODEN (74 gun), after that they attacked the BLENHEIM (98), the ORION (74), the IRRESISTIBLE (74) and the EXCELLENT (74), being saved in the last moment by the PELAYO (74 gun), and the PRINCIPE DE ASTURIAS, leaving the combat completely dismantled, and with half of her crew out of combat. 

In October 21 1805, she intervenes in the Battle of Trafalgar, under the control of "Francisco Javier Uriarte", and the boss of the Spanish squad, the Admiral "Don Baltazar Hidalgo de Cisneros", being attacked in different phases of the combat by the English ships NEPTUNE (80), LEVIATHAN (74), CONQUEROR (74), ÁFRICA (74) and PRINCE (98). 

After several hours of combat, without masts and without manoeubre capacity, with half of the crew dead or injured (312 dead and 338 injured), she was assaulted to the boarding, and after a ferocious fight body to body for all their holds, the ship surrenders when falling the afternoon. 

The English frigates NAIADE and PHOEBE, tried to tow her to Gibraltar Colony like spoils of war, but she was so deteriorated that she collapses when sighting "El Peñon" the 22th, finishing this way their 35 year-old life to the service to the Navy.

About the model:

This 32311 vertices and 50572 faces model has been designed as closed as it has been possible, according to the existing drawings and the limitations imposed by Virtual Sailor program. Not all guns has been included in the model, due to a limitation in vertices and faces capacity. However I arrived to the capacity limit of the boat.x matrix.

I want to thank to Antonio his patient support in texturing and his contribution to Virtual Sailor comunity supplyind the drawings and the hull model.

Andres Merino

Download First File ( 1.5 MB )

Download Second File ( 2.1 MB )

"GALATEA"

An historical summary
Length bp 245' 6" Breadth 37' 6" Depth 22' 6" 1613 tons gross 1490 tons nett
Built by Anderson Rodger of Port Glasgow for Sterling & Co Glasgow- riveted steel .She was launched fully rigged on the 3rd of December 1896 and named Glenlee.
Sold 1898 to Robert Ferguson Dundee and renamed Islamount.
Sold 1905 to R Thomas & Co Liverpool and operated as a one ship company - the Flint Castle Ship Co but not actually renamed..
Sold1919 to Societa Di Navigazione Di Italiana and renamed Clarastella..
Sold 1922 to the Spanish Navy for use as a sail training ship and renamed Galatea..
Sold 1992 at auction to the Clyde Maritime Trust and renamed Glenlee by the Lord Provost of Glasgow on the 6th of July 1993..
Between 1897 and 1919 whilst trading under the red ensign she completed four circumnavigations and rounded Cape Horn sixteen times. Her last voyage under Spanish ownership was in 1969 and thereafter she was secured alongside at the Ferrol naval base as a school ship and where she was drydocked during 1981 and replated below the waterline. Her masts and yards were sent down and she was towed to Seville (45 miles up the Guadalquivir River) where she was abandoned to the sun and the vandals and where we found her in 1992 looking very sorry for herself.
The Trust had only ten days notice of the Spanish Navy auction but was able to make a successful bid of 8 million pesetas (40,000 pounds). A further 30,000 pounds was spent during 1993 to meet towing certificate requirements for the 1,400 mile tow back to the Clyde which was completed on the 9th June at an average speed of 6 knots and where she was drydocked for inspection.

The model is the updated version of the real state of the vessel.

Because this is a BETA release, it is a coded boat.Xx model, available only for Virtual Sailor 7.3 release or later.

Download First File ( 4.5 MB )

Download Second File ( 1.2 MB )

"ZUAZO BRIDGE BATTLE"

An historical summary

The Spanish Independence War was an armed conflict between 1808 and 1814 in the Iberian Peninsula as a result of the entrance of the Napoleonic troops in Spain.

The strategic location of San Fernando (Island of Leon), Cadiz, demonstrate to be well defended and unconquerable by sea, makes the refuge in the City of many Spaniards, but specially of the apparatus of the state, which will make possible the elaboration of the first “Cadiz Constitution”.

In 1810 the French blockade begins but the Island stays in its defence, doing impossible the breaking out of the blockage. It stays in increase until the 25 of August of 1812 in what the French have to retire failed.

In the defence of the Island, had special relevance the use of the artillery adapted to the conditions of the battlefield. In this aspect, the use of equipped gunboats had special relevance and demonstrated to be very effective in the battle due to the mobility. This scenery and the equipped gunboats have participated in the commemorative acts of the First Spanish Constitution in San Fernando (Cádiz).

The elements included in this item are: 1 Civil Gunboat. 1 Militar Gunboat  and Gunboats_weapons, common for both Gunboats. Cadiz2 Scenery, composed by two files.

The recommended battle position for the boats are:

Latitude: 36 28 12 N. Longitude: 06 12 49 W.

Download Gunboat Militar ( 4.5 MB )               Download Gunboat_Civil ( 4.7 MB )

Download Gunboat Weapons ( 0.15 MB )

Download Scenery (1) ( 1.2 MB )                      Download Scenery (2) ( 3 MB)