HMS Hercules (1868); Warship; Ironclad
Scale: Unknown. Model of a muzzleloading 18 ton gun on a sliding and pivoting mounting on a section deck made in wood with metal fittings and a painted and stained in realistic colours. The gun is turned from a single piece of wood and painted silver and has conventional trunnions. The slide carriage is made of wood with straight sides. The slide carriage is mounted to a rectangular frame which pivots at a single point beneath the gunport. The frame has four wooden trucks mounted at oblique angles, the rear trucks are narrower than the front trucks. The trucks move in an arc along two rails set into the section of deck. The deck section is wedged shape and stained a dark mahogany finish. There are a pair of fingerholds at the edge of the deck at the centre. The hull section, numbered SLR2925.1, is painted off white inboard and inside the gunport. The exterior is black. The gunport is rectangular in shape with rounded corners.
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Object Details
ID: | SLR2925 |
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Collection: | Ship models |
Type: | Sectional model; Equipment model; Gun model |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Unknown |
Vessels: | Hercules (1868) |
Date made: | About 1850; circa 1866 Unknown |
People: | South Kensington Museum |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Overall model: 265 mm x 795 mm x 610 mm |
Parts: | HMS Hercules (1868); Warship; Ironclad |