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Service vessel; Launch
Scale: 1:48. A modern exhibition model of the 18-foot cutter as issued to HM Transport ‘Bounty’ (1784) and included as part of a larger diorama showing the ship alongside a quay loading supplies for a upcoming voyage. The hull is of carvel construction and is shown tied up alongside the quay. It is one of three boats issued to the ‘Bounty’ and would have been stowed inside the larger launch in the waist
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Object Details
| ID: | SLR3003 |
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| Collection: | Ship models |
| Type: | Full hull model; Rigged model |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Britten, Kenneth |
| Events: | Mutiny on the Bounty, 1789 |
| Vessels: | Bounty (purchased 1787) |
| Date made: | 1988 |
| People: | National Maritime Museum; Britten, Kenneth |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Reproduced with kind permission of Kenneth Britten, modelmaker |
| Measurements: | Overall model: 31 mm x 141 mm x 42 mm |
| Parts: | Service vessel; Launch |