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An image showing ''Cygnet', port stern quarter, with the stern of 'Queen Elizabeth''
An image showing 'HMS 'Queen Elizabeth' and 'Cygnet', both starboard stern quarter'
An image showing ''Queen Elizabeth' and 'Cygnet', both port broadside'
An image showing ''Cygnet', starboard broadside, with stern of 'Queen Elizabeth''
An image showing ''Queen Elizabeth', port broadside, with 'Cygnet''
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HMS Cygnet (1931); Warship; Destroyer

Scale: 1:192. Waterline model of the destroyer 'Cygnet' (1931). The model is decked, equipped and rigged. ‘H83’ is painted on the port and starboard bows and on the stern. The vessel is depicted as built with four 4.7-inch guns and eight 21-inch torpedo tubes. The model is displayed on a shared scenic base alongside the dreadnought battleship HMS 'Queen Elizabeth' (SLR1414), an Admiralty steam drifter and an Admiral’s barge, portraying a scene from the mid-1930s.

‘Cygnet’ was sold to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1937 and renamed ‘St Laurent’. It served throughout the Second World War.
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Object Details

ID: SLR1500
Collection: Ship models
Type: Waterline model; Rigged model; Scenic model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Ough, Norman A.
Vessels: Cygnet (1931)
People: Ward-Harris, J. G.
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Royal United Service Institution Collection
Measurements: Chatham storage measurement: 330 mm x 1250 mm x 500 mm
Parts: HMS Cygnet (1931); Warship; Destroyer