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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A full hull model of a shovel-nose sailing barge made entirely in wood with metal and organic material fittings and painted in realistic colours. The hull is flat-bottomed, straight-sided, with an angular bow and stern, chisel-shaped stem post and vertical stern post. The hull is painted black overall and the single deck is a varnished wood. Fittings include a single mast, a very long, stowed boom or yard and a ketch mast rigged to the rudder; a single hatch located amidships; a very large, flat-bottomed rudder; and provision for a bowsprit. The sails are in poor condition, currently detached and stored separately. On label applied to model ?84?.
CA: BBC. Sails in accompanying box and polythene bag.
caption: Shovel nose barge - port broadside
caption: Shovel nose barge - bow three quarter
caption: Shovel nose barge - stern quarter | 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 James Caird full hull ship models Mercury Naval College (Mercury Collection) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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