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Arcwear (1934); Passenger/cargo vessel
Scale: Unknown. A half block model of the starboard side of the passenger/cargo ship Arcwear (1934), made entirely in wood and painted off-white. The depicted vessel is a three-island configuration with a rectangular-shaped rudder and provision for a single propeller. The model is displayed on a rectangular mahogany backboard. Hand rendered on top left-hand corner of backboard ‘Length B.P. 360'-0" Beam Extreme 57'-6" Depth Moulded 26'-9" ’. Hand rendered on top centre of backboard ‘SS "Archwear" Built by Short Brothers, Limited, Sunderland’. Hand rendered on top right-hand corner of backboard ‘Isherwood "Arcform” Design’.
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Object Details
| ID: | SLR1515 |
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| Collection: | Ship models |
| Type: | Half block model |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Arcwear (1934) |
| Date made: | circa 1934 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall model: 342 x 2381 x 179 mm; Backboard: 398 x 2500 x 11 mm |