Northfleet Hope container terminal

Scale: 1:640. A model of the Northfleet Hope container terminal made of wood with metal and plastic fittings and painted in realistic colours. The model shows the container park with stacks of twenty and forty foot containers mainly painted white but some painted light grey, blue, green, red, brown and yellow. Depicted vehicles include yellow painted container trucks, container lorries and cars. There are two identical cranes on the quayside painted blue and loading containers onto the container ship Resolution Bay. The ship is depicted at the quayside and is painted brick red below the waterline, green above with light grey decks, white superstructure and a single green funnel with the logo for Overseas Containers Limited (OLC). On the port and starboard bows 'Resolution Bay'. On the stern 'Resolution Bay London'. The water in the topographical scene is painted a uniform dark grey, the quayside on which the cranes operate is light grey and the container park is mid grey with white markings. Other details include six lighting towers, a small section of foreshore, a large warehouse painted grey with a pitched roof, a short terrace of domestic dwellings and two barges moored alongside the quayside.

Object Details

ID: SLR2160
Collection: Ship models
Type: Topographical model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Britten, Kenneth
Vessels: Resolution Bay
Date made: circa 1979
People: Port of London Authority
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Reproduced with kind permission of Kenneth Britten, modelmaker
Measurements: Overall model: 110 x 1273 x 531 mm