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Description: | Launch. Fitted with trunks through the bottom for laying out anchors and landing guns. By Mr. Cow, Woolwich Yard, 1824
Scale: 1:24. A contemporary full hull model of a ship?s launch, mounted on a raised table base to illustrate the carrying of a cannon. The hull is inscribed with an 'armorial? head of a cow on either bow and is an obvious reference to the name of the inventor of this modified launch for carrying cannon. A large cannon is slung underneath on ropes, which is rigged through vertical trunks fitted between two thwarts. If a ship needed to land or reduce its weight by removing the number of guns, or to lay out or retrieve the heavy anchors in a difficult mooring, these heavily built boats could be adapted to carry out such tasks away from the dockyard or harbour facilities.
CA: BBC.
caption: Cutter - starboard broadside
caption: Cutter - starboard three quarter view
caption: Cutter - port quarter stern
caption: Cutter - detail of gun and rigging | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum James Caird full hull ship models Mercury Naval College (Mercury Collection) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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