Service vessel; Lighter; Lifting lighter

Scale: not calculated. The model depicts a flat-bottomed, double-ended, lifting lighter, of around 1900. A slot-shaped well in the centre of the vessel is open to the water and, through this, pass four in-line steel lifting cables that feed around fairleads, drum-shaped capstans, and through eight retaining vice-like devices on the deck. We can see from the model that the vessel had a wooden deck and a plated steel hull. The model, too, is made from wood and metal and the fittings include a large square-shaped rudder, hand operated breaking devices for the cables, white-painted hood and an anchor windlass, forward. The model still retains its smart figured mahogany base and turned brass pillar supports, though its case cover is now lost.

Object Details

ID: SLR1785
Collection: Ship models
Type: Full hull model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Tombs, John
Date made: circa 1900
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall model: 155 x 712 x 182 mm; Base: 90 x 856 x 325 mm