Service vessel; Cutter

Scale: 1:5. A model of a 32-foot pulling and sailing cutter (circa 1900) that was transferred to the NMM in 1956 from Devonport dockyard and which has been used there for sea-sense training and instruction. Once rigged we can see that the foremast carries a dipping lugsail, and the mainmast a dipping lugsail and boom.

The model was made by shipwright apprentices in the Royal Dockyard at Plymouth, with great attention to detail and with consummate skill. The strakes forming the clinker hull have been fastened to the frame with copper rivets, all perfectly in line; the gratings have been made and assembled in exactly the same way as real ones, rather than formed from a single piece of wood with the holes punched out. The keel has been weighted with lead, and there is a detachable semi-spherical slug of lead that can be added for good measure.

With a lifesaving capacity of 59 persons, it was one of the standard boats used by ships of the Royal Navy in the early part of the 20th century.

Object Details

ID: SLR1318
Collection: Ship models
Type: Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Plymouth Dockyard
Date made: Early 20th century
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 1640 mm x 2150 mm x 500 mm
Parts: Service vessel; Cutter
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