Cargo vessel
Scale: Unknown. A half block model of the starboard side of a steam and sail powered cargo vessel made entirely in wood. The depicted vessel is three-masted, with a single funnel. The hull below the waterline is a varnished wood made up of a number of pieces of butt-jointed horizontal timbers and painted black above the waterline. The hull is flat-bottomed and straight-sided amidships. Fittings include two fine strakes in polished wood running he entire length of the hull; stump foremast, mainmast and mizzen; black-painted stump funnel; and provision for a single screw. The model is a displayed on a rectangular dark mahogany backboard with bevelled edges and two screw holes at either end.
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Object Details
ID: | SLR2666 |
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Collection: | Ship models |
Type: | Half block model |
Display location: | Not on display |
People: | Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Chatham storage measurement: 260 mm x 1320 mm x 120 mm |
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