HMS Rodney (1833); Warship; 92 guns

Scale: 1:48. A model of the port side of HMS Rodney (1833) made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The hull below the waterline is painted brown with a narrow cream stripe above, and black above the waterline. There are two broad white stripes running horizontally along the two gundecks and the main and poop decks are painted a uniform cream. The port quarter and stern galleries are shown, their decoration highlighted in cream. Fittings include channels, port, main and mizzen stumpmasts, two hawseholes, open gunports, a retracting funnel, and a stump bowsprit and scroll figurehead. The model is displayed on a cream backboard with a stained bevelled edge. The plaque is inscribed: "168a. Rodney, 70 guns, 1833 scale 1/48 (1/4" to 1") Built at Pembroke as a 92-gun sailing ship (see No.168) and converted to a 70-gun screw battleship in 1860. Broken up in 1884. Dimensions: - Gun Deck 205ft.6in. Beam 54ft. 5 1/2in.". Plaque missing.

Object Details

ID: SLR0743
Collection: Ship models
Type: Half block model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Vessels: Rodney (1833)
Date made: 1860
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
Measurements: Overall model: 393 x 1603 x 173 mm; Backboard: 470 x 1746 x 24 mm