King George Dock

Scale: 1:640. A model of the ro-ro terminal at King George Dock, Hull (circa 1978) made in wood with metal and plastic components and painted in realistic colours. The model depicts two passenger ferries, Norland (1974) and Norwave (1965), a vehicle ferry Norsky (1977), and a molasses tanker Athel Duchess (1968), as well as numerous barges. The section of the dock includes an oil, or chemical, terminal with two whole, and two partly depicted, storage tanks; two car parks and a lorry park; warehouses with shallow-sloping pitched roofs; domestic housing; and infrastructure features including roads, arc lights, street lighting and grass verges. On port and starboard bows of molasses carrier "Athel Duchess". On port and starboard bows, and stern "Norland" and port and starboard stern quarters "Norland Hull". On port and starboard bows "Norwave" (1965).

Object Details

ID: SLR2164
Collection: Ship models
Type: Topographic model; Scenic model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Britten, Kenneth
Vessels: Norwave 1965; Norsky 1977 Athel Duchess (1968) Norland 1974
Date made: circa 1978
People: British Transport Docks Board; Britten, Kenneth
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Reproduced with kind permission of Kenneth Britten, modelmaker
Measurements: Overall model: 98 x 1224 x 531 mm