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Description: | Scale: unknown. A contemporary sailor made picture model of a two-masted schooner-rigged racing yacht (1840), with a waterline hull mounted on a painted sea base. The painted background includes a number of other vessels such as paddle steamer, a ship-rigged merchantman, and a two-masted topsail schooner. The yacht is fitted with an eagle figurehead and a number of figures on deck. There is a defaced blue ensign with an anchor and crown flying from the mizzen and a small pennant (now detached).(
CA: BBC.
caption: Yacht picture model | 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 pictures Royal Northern Yacht Club models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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