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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the port side of the battleship HMS Alexandria (1875), made entirely in wood and painted pink-brown below the waterline, a narrow white stripe above and black above the waterline with a white gunwale. Hull details include a ram bow; a large gun forward mounting inset; rows of square portholes and gunports; central battery; port bilge keel; rudder; and port propeller shaft casing. Other fittings include stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast and mizzen mast, and two lozenge-shaped funnels, painted ochre. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame.
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caption: HMS Alexandra 1875 - 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 blocks models (representations) Alexandra 1875 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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