1st Rate Turret Ship ‘HMS Dreadnought’ 1866
Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of the first-rate turret ship HMS ‘Dreadnought’ (1866). It is complete with its original decorated wooden base and is fully rigged with tripod masts and spars. This model illustrates one of a series of eight men of war as proposed by Vice-Admiral E. P. Halsted, which carried guns and turrets as designed by Captain Cowper Coles. Measuring 455 feet in length by 70 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 10,764 (builder’s old measurement), this was to be the largest of Halsted’s designs carrying seven turrets mounting pairs of 9-inch guns.
Object Details
ID: | SLR0043 |
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Collection: | Ship models |
Type: | Full hull model |
Display location: | Not on display |
Vessels: | Dreadnought (1866) |
Date made: | circa 1866 |
People: | Robert Napier & Sons; Science Museum Group Halsted, E P |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Overall model: 1789 x 3440 x 844 mm; Base: 199 x 3390 x 623 mm |
Parts: | 1st Rate Turret Ship ‘HMS Dreadnought’ 1866 |