Merchant vessel

Scale: Unknown. A sectional model of a stern of a merchant vessel constructed in bread-and-butter fashion and made entirely in natural wood. There are eighteen separate horizontal planks which have been either screwed or nailed together and subsequently carved and fared to produce the required shape depicting the stern of a merchant vessel. It is complete with a horizontal keel, a slightly raking sternpost, and a shallow counter stern.

Object Details

ID: SLR2246
Collection: Ship models
Type: Sectional model; Stern model; Half block model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Date made: Unknown
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall model: 465 mm x 740 mm x 275 mm