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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A model of the port side of HMS Rodney (1833) made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The hull below the waterline is painted brown with a narrow cream stripe above, and black above the waterline. There are two broad white stripes running horizontally along the two gundecks and the main and poop decks are painted a uniform cream. The port quarter and stern galleries are shown, their decoration highlighted in cream. Fittings include channels, port, main and mizzen stumpmasts, two hawseholes, open gunports, a retracting funnel, and a stump bowsprit and scroll figurehead. The model is displayed on a cream backboard with a stained bevelled edge. The plaque is inscribed: "168a. Rodney, 70 guns, 1833 scale 1/48 (1/4" to 1") Built at Pembroke as a 92-gun sailing ship (see No.168) and converted to a 70-gun screw battleship in 1860. Broken up in 1884. Dimensions: - Gun Deck 205ft.6in. Beam 54ft. 5 1/2in.". Plaque missing.
CA: AAB.
caption: Rodney 1833 - 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 Rodney (1833) blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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