Taffrail

Taffrail carved with scrolling foliage with a shell in the centre. It reputedly came from a Dutch ship wrecked off the Suffolk coast after the Battle of Solebay.

Object Details

ID: EQA0023
Collection: Ship equipment
Type: Taffrail
Display location: Not on display
Events: Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Solebay, 1672
Date made: 17C
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 762 mm x 3048 mm