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Description: | Scale: 1:24. A model of the research brigantine Research (1939) made entirely in wood with metal and organic material fittings and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted green below the waterline and white above with a narrow brown stripe running the entire length of the hull at deck level. The superstructure is painted white and the decks are unpainted. Hull fittings include a pair of anchors, a companion ladder rigged on the starboard side, and a small two-bladed propeller. The bowsprit and jib boom is fitted with a metal dolphin striker which has a support brace attached to the stempost. Four jib sails are rigged. The foremast is square rigged with five sails set. Deck details include four ventilators painted white and facing aft, capstans and windlasses, several skylights, and a ship's wheel at the stern. There are two lifeboats with white hulls stowed on davits. The model is mounted on a pair of roughly shaped black painted crutches.
CA: AAB. This vessel was to carry on the work of terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity previously undertaken by the ship ?Carnegie? of the Carnegie Institute, Washington from 1909 to 1929. However, the outbreak of the Second World War intervened and the vessel was never fully completed, eventually being moved to Plymouth in 1952 to be broken up. It is thought that this model was constructed in the shipyard to undertake sailing trials together with development work relating to its construction and fit out of equipment to minimise its effect on magnetism.
caption: Research vessel 1939 - port broadside
caption: Research vessel 1939 - starboard broadside
caption: Research vessel 1939 - starboard stern quarter
caption: Research vessel 1939 - port three quarter bow
caption: 'Research', starboard broadside
caption: 'Research', starboard stern quarter
caption: 'Research', port � bow | 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 Research 1939 full hull ship models | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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