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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A half block model of the starboard side of the three-masted cargo ship 'Bengal' (1868), made entirely in wood, painted and polished. The hull is polished wood below the waterline and black above. The hull has a clipper bow. Fittings include figurehead and decorated trail boards, a stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast and mizzen mast, rudder, and stern gallery windows. There is a forecastle and poop. The model is displayed on a rectangular wooden backboard with bevelled edges. On starboard bow ?Bengal?.
CA: BAC.
caption: Bengal - broadside
caption: Bengal - figurehead | 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 Bengal 1868 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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