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Brand: Billings
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Gotheborg is a Billings Plank on Frame model kit suitable for experienced modellers.She is a replica of a vessel owned by The Swedish East India Company, formed in 1731 in Gothenburg.The Swedish East India Company was trading tea, porcelain and silk in China. On the homeward voyage from China one of the company's ships foundered in 1745.The Gotheborg was built by the SOIC to recreate a copy of the foundered vessel with the main dimensions,alignments,hull and rigging in conformity with a Swedish East Indiaman of the 18th Century.