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Description: | Scale 1:48. A contemporary half block model of the Royal Yacht Fairy (1845). The hull is built in bread and butter fashion and painted a metallic brown colour below the waterline with black topsides above to a flush deck . It has a clipper bow decorated with a small scroll and painted trailboard, above which is fitted a stump bowsprit. On deck are three stump masts and a single funnel, all of which are painted a creamy white. At the stern is fitted a rudder and frame for the single screw(not fitted) with a small quarter gallery and square stern above. The whole model is mounted on a wooden rectangular backboard, painted a creamy white and surrounded with a moulded stained edge. It is inscribed ?HMS Fairy Royal Yacht Built 1845?.
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The first tender to the ?Victoria and Albert? (I) (SLR0813), the iron screw yacht ?Fairy? was built at Blackwall by Ditchburn and Mare in 1844. It was launched and commissioned in 1845 and measured 146 feet in length by 21 feet in the beam with a tonnage of 312 burden. The ?Fairy? accompanied the ?Victoria and Albert? yacht on voyage and her first duty was to attend the Royal Yacht in Antwerp and take the Queen and Prince Albert on board for their cruise in the shallow waters of the Scheldt. It also sailed many times to Scotland during the summer months as well as conveying members of the Royal Family to and from Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She was replaced by the ?Alberta? (see SLR0947) in 1863 and finally broken up in 1868. See also SLR0208 and SLR0823, other models of ?Fairy?.
caption: Royal yacht Fairy - broadside
caption: 'Fairy', port broadside | 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 Fairy 1845 blocks models (representations) Yachting | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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