Gwendoline (1894); Cargo vessel; Smack

Scale: 1:72. A full hull model of the West Country smack Gwendoline (1894). Made entirely in wood with wood, metal and organic material fittings and painted in realistic colours. The vessel is depicted fully equipped and rigged, with the sails set. The hull is carvel-built, plank-on-frame, has an almost vertical stem, transom stern, and painted black which is purposefully weathered. Hull fittings include an anchor rigged to the port side, single strake and rudder with unpainted tiller. The single mast has mainsail and a jackyard topsail, and there are two jib sails on the bowsprit. All the sails are made in off-white material. Other features include a windlass, a tyre being used as a fender and a large hatch. The model is mounted on a pair of shaped squat crutches and displayed on a rectangular wooden baseboard with sloping sides. On port and starboard bows ‘Gwendoline’. On stern ‘Gwendoline Plymouth’.

Object Details

ID: SLR1258
Collection: Ship models
Type: Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Roe, John
Vessels: Gwendoline 1894
Date made: circa 1972
People: Roe, Michael Thomas
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Reproduced with kind permission of the artist's son and grandsons.
Measurements: Overall model: 369 x 332 x 79 mm; Base: 30 x 361 x 106 mm