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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A model of HMS 'Lightning' (1829), made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted brown below the waterline and black above with a broad cream stripe running horizontally along the gun deck. There is a broad white horizontal stripe along the gundeck. The model is complete with a square stern gallery, a rudder and, at the bow, a set of drift rails, cathead and a bust figurehead. The single deck, together with the inboard bulwark is painted off white and devoid of detail.
The model is mounted on a wooden backboard painted off white with a mahogany stained edging.
CA: AAB. Cited as coming from the Admiralty, Somerset House according to Callender's Ledger (NMM 22/1).
This vessel was renamed Larne in 1832.
caption: HMS 'Lightning' (1829) - broadside | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Larne 1829 Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue blocks models (representations) South Kensington Museum Naval Models Catalogue | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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