Windsor Castle (1959); Passenger vessel; Liner

Scale: 1:38.4. A realistically painted model of the Windsor Castle (1959) made in plastic with wood and metal fittings. The hull is painted brick red at the water line, lavender grey above, and has white painted upperworks, superstructure, and some fittings. The hull fittings include a pair of anchors at the port and starboard bows, and three rows of port holes running intermittently along the entire length of the hull. There are six cutaway sections on the portside showing interior fittings and layouts and annotated: 'First Class Dining Room', 'Dining Room for Private Functions', 'Tourist Class Library', and 'Tourist Class Dining Room'. Two sections have lost their labels. The foredeck is painted lavender grey and fittings include a ship's bell, an ensign staff, twin winches, and a cargo hatch. The forward cargo deck is painted green. Fittings include a single large cargo hatch and a derrick crane mounted on transverse rails. The forward sheltered passenger deck is painted green with ten figures. The main superstructure is placed amidships and fittings include navigation lights on a tall mast forward, a bridge area with officer figures, five lifeboats painted white with grey covers and stowed on davits, a radar mast with two house flags flying from a halyard on the port side, a single funnel painted red with a black top, and a promenade deck. At the aft end of the promenade deck is a glazed sheltered canopy and a first class lido area with a swimming pool. There is a veranda cafe forward of the swimming pool. The aft deck is painted green and fittings include a large deckhouse, a games area, a tourist class swimming pool, two lifeboats stowed on davits, and a deckhouse which has two derricks on the roof at the aft end. At the aft end of this deck is a red ensign and the deck acts as a shelter deck for the deck below. 'Windsor Castle' is on the port and starboard bows and on the port and starboard sides of A deck. On the stern is: 'Windsor Castle London'. On signs attached to port and starboard stern quarters: 'Twin screw beware of propellers'. The model weighs 11cwt and took 5000 hours to make.

Object Details

ID: SLR0143
Collection: Ship models
Type: Waterline model; Accommodation model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bassett-Lowke Ltd; Precision Engineers Ltd
Vessels: Windsor Castle 1959
Date made: circa 1959
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 1320 x 6210 x 760 mm