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Description: | Scale: 1:60. A model of H.M.S Victory (1765) made entirely in wood that has been painted in realistic colours with metal fittings. The vessel is shown in a launching cradle on a slipway. The hull is painted white below the waterline with a closed black wale above. The remainder of the hull is varnished, and laid in individual planks. There are three gun decks and all the gunports are depicted in an open position, the inner faces of the gunport lids are painted red as are the insides of the gunports themselves. A decorative frieze is painted on a blue ground that runs the entire length of the hull just above main deck level. The figurehead is finely carved depicting George III, allegorical figures and a Union flag on the starboard side. Other bow details include a pair of whisker booms, a pair of catheads, one large admiralty pattern anchor, and one small anchor. The model does not have any masts but instead has three launching flag poles. Foredeck fittings include a bell and belfry, stove chimney, and a forward launching flag pole. The waist has been closed in and four beams support a ship?s boat equipped with a number of red-painted oars. Beneath the boat on the main deck are two sets of gratings. The upper deck fittings include the ship's double wheel painted red, and two companion ways that provide access to the poop deck. The poop deck fittings include a rectangular skylight, launching flag pole, hammock stowage rails, and provision for an ensign jack staff. The stern and quarter galleries, of which two are open, are elaborately carved and painted, and glazed in mica. The launching cradle and slipway is realistically depicted and there are six stabiliser poles attached to the port and starboard stern quarters and the sides of the slipway.
CA: AAA.
caption: HMS Victory - starboard broadside
caption: HMS Victory - port broadside
caption: HMS Victory - port stern quarter
caption: HMS Victory - starboard three quarter bow
caption: HMS Victory - poop and quarter deck detail from starboard
caption: HMS Victory - waist area and long boat detail from starboard
caption: HMS Victory - three quarter bow figurehead detail from starboard
caption: HMS Victory - three quarter bow figurehead detail from port
caption: HMS Victory - figurehead detail from dead ahead
caption: HMS Victory - stern galleries dead astern
caption: 'Victory', port broadside
caption: 'Victory', port � bow
caption: 'Victory', 100 guns | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Victory (1765) Ships and dockyards Nelson's Navy Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Nelson full hull ship models King George V Victory Museum: Portsmouth: Hamp | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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