Albion (1861)
Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the bow, head, headrails, trail-board and figurehead for Albion (1861), a 91-gun Second Rate, screw two-decker. This ship was converted from a 90-gun sailing ship.
The three-quarter length figurehead of Britannia, the personification of Britain (or Albion), shows her in a scale chainmail shirt with a lion head on the right upper arm. She is wearing a pleated skirt that curves around the scroll decoration at the top of the blank trail-board. Britannia is wearing a plumed ancient Greek helmet. This is a simialr figurehead to Saint George (1859). This figurehead survives at Hull Maritime Museum.
Signed by James P. Peake [Master Shipwright, Devonport Dockyard, 1859-]. The plan includes an Admiralty Letter Book number S5952.
The three-quarter length figurehead of Britannia, the personification of Britain (or Albion), shows her in a scale chainmail shirt with a lion head on the right upper arm. She is wearing a pleated skirt that curves around the scroll decoration at the top of the blank trail-board. Britannia is wearing a plumed ancient Greek helmet. This is a simialr figurehead to Saint George (1859). This figurehead survives at Hull Maritime Museum.
Signed by James P. Peake [Master Shipwright, Devonport Dockyard, 1859-]. The plan includes an Admiralty Letter Book number S5952.
Object Details
| ID: | DIC0128 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Technical drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Dickerson, Frederick |
| Date made: | 25 September 1860 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 374 mm x 459 mm |
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