Passenger/cargo vessel

Scale: Unknown. A waterline model of a possible cargo vessel. The hull is painted black with brick red at the waterline and white bulwarks. The decks are painted a uniform off-white with mid-grey decks. The long foredeck has two cargo hatch covers with a derrick mast between them. The main superstructure incorporates a bridge, pilot house, six lifeboats on the boat deck, a promenade deck and a small cargo hatch. There are a number of ventilators on the boat deck and, in the middle of them, a single funnel painted black with a band of white diamonds. The rear part of the promenade deck has a small cargo hatch served by a pair of derricks. The aft cargo deck has two hatches and the deck is bisected by a raised boat deck on which is stowed a pair of lifeboats and, between them a derrick mast that serves the two hatches. The raised aft deck also has stowed a pair of boats and a pair of derricks. On base of model "167".

Object Details

ID: ZBA1029
Collection: Ship models
Type: Waterline model; Miniature model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Carpenter, Reginald
Places: Southampton; Devon
Date made: Unknown
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Chatham storage measurement: 60 mm x 440 mm x 440 mm
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