Jupiter (fl.1900); Fishing vessel; Chasse marie

Scale: Unknown. A full hull model of a chasse marie, a French coastal fishing vessel (circa 1900) made entirely in wood with metal and organic material fittings and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted duck egg blue below the waterline, black above, with a narrow white stripe running its entire length and a pale yellow triangular section on the waterline at the bow. The depicted vessel is two-masted with a jib sail set on the bowsprit, a single dipping square sail on the foremast, two square sails on the mainmast and a small square sail set on the stern, against the transom. Fittings include companion way cover, hatches with grey covers, conical-shaped capstan, port and starboard navigation lights rigged at the stern quarters and a rudder. The model is mounted on a pair of wooden crutches and displayed on a rectangular wooden baseboard. On port and starboard broadsides ‘G.416’. On stern ‘Jupiter Chavelines’.

Object Details

ID: SLR1866
Collection: Ship models
Type: Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Date made: pre-1914
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Adams Collection
Measurements: Overall model: 356 x 454 x 103 mm; Base: 53 x 377 x 147 mm
Parts: Jupiter (fl.1900); Fishing vessel; Chasse marie