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Description: | Scale: not calculated. A model of a launch which appears to correspond to an entry in the 1906 catalogue of the Museum of Artillery in the Rotunda, Woolwich (Class XXVII No.33), which lists a ?Model of a launch, showing the plan adopted by Sir W. Congreve for using the rockets in Basque Roads?. It is equipped with a single oar, though it is fitted with ten thole pins. The model has been sturdily built to show a heavily framed and carvel planked boat that would withstand the shock of being used as a rocket-firing platform. The shallow draft and wide beam would have given the vessel stability, while the provision for ten oars would have been required to give the vessel optimum manoeuvrability. One suspects that the model is now incomplete; nevertheless it is an interesting and important item dating from the earliest development of rocketry.
CA: BAC.
caption: Congreive - port broadside
caption: Congreive - port three quarter view
caption: Congreive - starboard quarter view | 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 full hull ship models | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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