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Warship; Fourth rate; 50 guns
Scale: 1:60. A contemporary full hull model of a 50-gun small two-decker (circa 1714), built plank on frame in the Navy Board style. Model is decked, planked, fully equipped and rigged. Fittings include a longboat stowed on the spare topmasts in the waist, guns turned in brass and mounted on fully rigged wooden carriages, a full set of anchors with all their gear and a pair of Jacob’s ladders slung over the stern.
Of particular importance is the rigging since it is virtually all original and includes some features such as the extension of the bowsprit with a jiboom and the squaring off of the fighting tops. This model is one of two in the collection (see also SLR0398) with its original early 18th-century rigging still intact. It is known as the 'Barrington model' because of its unbroken provenance in the family.
Of particular importance is the rigging since it is virtually all original and includes some features such as the extension of the bowsprit with a jiboom and the squaring off of the fighting tops. This model is one of two in the collection (see also SLR0398) with its original early 18th-century rigging still intact. It is known as the 'Barrington model' because of its unbroken provenance in the family.
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Object Details
| ID: | SLR0396 |
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| Collection: | Ship models |
| Type: | Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Date made: | circa 1714 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, 1993 |
| Measurements: | Overall model: 835 x 1020 x 400 mm; Base: 130 x 915 x 255 mm |