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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A half block model of the starboard side of the four-masted passenger/cargo barque Cedar Bank (1892), made entirely in wood, painted and polished. The hull is polished wood made up of several horizontal sections below the waterline and black above with a broad off-white stripe running the entire length of the hull onto which is painted black rectangles that resemble gunports. Hull details include a clipper bow; figurehead; starboard hawse holes; and rudder. Fittings include foredeck and poop deck; a stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast, mizzen mast and jigger mast; three deckhouses on the main deck of varying lengths and with what appear to be skylights; and tall deckhouse and enclosed wheel on the poop. The model is displayed on a rectangular wooden backboard with a framed edge in a lighter-coloured wood
CA: BAC. Plaque missing.
caption: Cedar Bank 1892 - broadside
caption: Cedar Bank 1892 - 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 Cedar Bank 1892 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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