Sectional model; Bow model; Half frame model

Scale: Unknown. A contemporary half bow model constructed plank on frame and made in wood that has been stained and polished. The model depicts the starboard three quarter bow and has been mounted to a rectangular oak backboard and secured to it along the stem and by three wood braces internally. There are 12 separate vertical frames, on two of which is painted two circular hawse holes, supported by twelve horizontal ribbands secured together with copper pins. The backboard has a handwritten inscription in white paint "Made by Sir Robt Seppings in the 3rd Year of his Appren'p". At the top of the rearmost frame a paper label has been applied marked "6".

Object Details

ID: SLR2179
Collection: Ship models
Type: Sectional model; Bow model; Half frame model
Display location: Display - Voyagers
Creator: Seppings, Robert
Date made: 1780; 1783
Exhibition: Voyagers
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
Measurements: Overall: 535 mm x 230 mm x 215 mm
Parts: Sectional model; Bow model; Half frame model