HMS Monarch (1868); Warship; Turret ship

Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the port side of the turret ship HMS Monarch (1868), made entirely in wood and painted light pink-brown below the waterline, a narrow white stripe above and black above the waterline with a second white stripe along the gunwale. Hull details include a ram bow, rows of square portholes, propeller and rudder. Other fittings include stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast and mizzen mast, a single lozenge-shaped funnel painted off-white with an ochre top, and two turrets, each with provision for two guns, fore and aft the funnel. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame with bevelled edge. On backboard ‘Monarch’.

Object Details

ID: SLR1001
Collection: Ship models
Type: Half block model
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Monarch (1868)
Date made: circa 1868
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall model: 363 x 2234 x 187 mm; Backboard: 444 x 2355 x 24 mm