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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the port side of the 16-gun corvette HMS Calliope (1884), made entirely in wood and painted pink-brown below the waterline with a narrow white stripe above running the entire length of the vessel, and black above. Hull details two port hawse holes; two apertures in the bulwarks for the battery positions; rudder; and a well for the propeller which is either missing or was not originally fitted. Other fittings include stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast and mizzen mast and a single tall funnel painted black. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame with bevelled edge. On plaque attached to top left-hand corner of backboard 'Calliope'.
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caption: HMS Calliope 1884 - broadside | 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 Calliope 1884 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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