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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the starboard side of the ship-rigged cargo vessels Andreta (1880), Cambermere (1880), Galgate (1880), M E Watson (1880), Magician (1880) and Mooltan (1880), made entirely in wood, partly painted and polished a mid-brown colour. The hull is polished wood below the waterline with horizontal lines inscribed on it and black above. The hull has a clipper bow and rudder. Fittings include a stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast and mizzen mast; forecastle and poop deck; and two unidentified structures located on the poop. The model is displayed on a rectangular wooden backboard with bevelled edges. Inscribed on the left- and right-hand sides of the backboard is ?Richardson Duck & Co Shipbuilders Stockton-on-Tees? and ?Mooltan, Cambermere, Andreta, Magician, M.E. Watson, Andreta, Galgate?.
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caption: Andreta (1880) - broadside
caption: Andreta (1880) - bow and 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 Magician fl.1880 Galgate fl.1880 Andreta fl.1880 blocks M E Watson 1880 Cambermere fl.1880 Mooltan 1880 models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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