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Description
The Grand Turk was the original name of a three-masted sixth-rate frigate, that was designed to represent a generic Nelson age warship replica, with its design greatly inspired by HMS Blandford (1741). She was laid down in Marmaris, Turkey in 1996, primarily to provide a replica of a frigate, for the production of the ITV series adapted from the famous novels about Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower by Cecil Scott Forester. Nowadays the tall ship is used mainly in sailing events, for corporate or private charter, and for receptions in its spacious saloon or on its deck. The ship is currently based in Saint Malo Brittany and has been re-named "L'Etoile du Roy" - "The King's Star". (Wikipedia)