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Equipment model; Anchor model
Scale: Unknown. A model of a stockless anchor (circa 1822) cast entirely from iron and showing it either damaged or converted to a mooring anchor. Only one arm is connected to the flat-sided oval shaped shank and is complete with the familiar shaped palm. At the top of the shank it tapers into a rectangular section with two small shoulders which once may have supported a stock, just below the large circular ring. The shank stamped: 'INVENTED BY T BROWN 1821', 'THE ANCHOR WAS FINISHED THE 21 JANY 1822', 'MODDLE OF THE ANCHOR 46-3-0', 'MADE IN THE DOCK YARD WOOLWICH'.
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Object Details
| ID: | SLR1999 |
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| Collection: | Ship models |
| Type: | Equipment model; Anchor model |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Unknown |
| Date made: | Unknown |
| People: | South Kensington Museum; Brown, Tom Brown, Tom |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall model: 410 x 190 x 57 mm |