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Description: | Scale: 1:24. A contemporary full hull model of a RNSA 14 sailing dinghy circa 1920. The hull is built plank on frame with mahogany planks on steamed oak frames and varnished throughout. It is fully equipped with a rudder with a retractable metal blade, tiller with extension, copper buoyancy tanks and a working centre plate. It has a fully working gunter rig with a jib and a battened cotton mainsail with the number ?254? stitched on the port side. The model was used as a teaching aid and as such is complete with a large number of small plastic labels identifying the important parts of the hull, fittings and the wooden mast and spars.
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The model was originally made as a teaching aid as all the main constructional features as well as the various fittings are labelled. It represents the class of dinghy used by the Royal Navy for both training and recreational sailing and was designed by Charles Nicholson and Uffa Fox in the early 1920s. It measured 14 feet in length by 6 feet in the beam and was known as the Royal Naval Sailing Association 14 (RNSA 14). The versatile gunter rig enabled the stowage of all of the mast and spars within the hull, a space saving feature if carried aboard a warship.
caption: Sailing dinghy - starboard broadside
caption: Sailing dinghy - bow three quarter
caption: Sailing dinghy - stern quarter
caption: Internal detail of labels
caption: Full hull model, dinghy, starboard stern quarter
caption: Full hull model, dinghy, interior detail | 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 Royal Navy Sailing Association Yachting | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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