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HMS Bellona

All of them of course are card models! They only look as wooden so please bear that in mind while looking through pictures. Some would not even dare to think that such beauties can be build from paper or cardboard. Certain additions are sometimes allowed as in certain areas wood or wires must be used but the construction itself, planking is 100% cardboard and then painted.

HMS Alert - British cutter launched on June 24, 1777. Unit used by Royal Navy to patrol, deliver mail and to fight smugglers and corsairs. At the beginning she was patrolling English (La Manche) Channel waters protecting trading ships.
 

 
Famous date for Alert is September 18, 1777 when American 16 gun brigantine Lexingon had been spotted in the area of Cape Quessant. After the short battle Lexington had been captured and Alert managed to return with her prize back to England. After some repairs she continued her patrol duties along southern coasts of Portugal. In July 1778 Alert has been captured by French frigate Junion.

Length: 69 feet
Beam: 25 feet.

HMS Alert from Shipyard is available in two versions: as new set with brass guns, cloth for sails etc. and older, typical card model.

HMS Alert 1777

HMS Alert and Le Coureur

HMS Bellona - 74 gun third rate two decker  of the Royal Navy.

Built at Chatham and launched on February 19, 1760. Left to join the squadron blockading Brest in April same year. Later detached to patrol off the Tagus River in Spain, and on August 13, while sailing with the frigate Brilliant, she sighted the French 74-gun ship Courageux in company with two frigates. The British ships pursued, and after 14 hours, caught up with the French ships and engaged, the Brilliant attacking the frigates, and Bellona taking on the Courageux. The frigates eventually got away, but the Courageux struck her colours, and was later repaired and taken into the Royal Navy.

Pictures of HMS Bellona model from Shipyard show CARD model with medals that the model has won on World and European championships in their respective card model classes.

In 1762 Bellona was paid off and did not see action again until 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. She was coppered at this time, one of the first British ships to receive the hull-protecting layer. Until 1783 she cruised in the North Sea and the West Indies, and participated in reliefs of Gibraltar. 

Bellona was once again paid off, recommissioned briefly in 1789 in expectation of war with Russia, but didn't get into action again until 1793, when she went to the West Indies. In 1801 she was in the Battle of Copenhagen, participating despite having grounded on a shoal. She continued to serve in the North Sea and Bay of Biscay until 1814, when she paid off for the last time and was broken up, having served in the navy for over 50 years, an unusually long time for one of the old wooden ships.

HMS Bellona from ShipYard in A3 format available at BoatModelling.com:

HMS Bellona