Passenger vessel; Boat

Scale: 1:48?. a full hull model of an open boat made entirely in wood with metal fittings and varnished or polished. The hull has a transom stern and made diagonal plank-on-frame. Fittings include a single strake, painted black; provision for two oars either side with square apertures set into the top strake and plugged; four thwarts; two side seats aft with a further two small stern seats facing one another; and rudder. The model is mounted on a pair of turned wooden pillar supports and displayed on a rectangular mahogany baseboard with rounded edges. On paper label applied to baseboard ‘6’.

Object Details

ID: SLR1835
Collection: Ship models
Type: Full hull model; Plank-on-frame
Display location: Not on display
Date made: before 1869
People: South Kensington Museum
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall model: 96 x 536 x 128 mm; Base: 40 x 587 x 152 mm