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Description: | Scale: 1:96. Something of an anachronism in modelmaking terms the ?Bamenda Palm? (1956) is, despite its relatively recent age, very much a shipbuilder?s model of the old style with its turned pillar supports and heavy mahogany baseboard. It is one of the last models to show the 'builder's style' in model construction in the Museum?s collection.
The distinctive colours of the Palm Line, for whom the vessel was built, and who presented the model to the NMM, can be seen on the funnel. Details include accommodation ladders rigged on both port and starboard sides of the model, which in reality would be unusual. ?Bamenda Palm? herself was built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson. She had a number of owners and name changes during the course of her life and was sold for scrap in 1983.
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Something of an anachronism in modelmaking terms the Bamenda Palm (1956) is, despite its relatively recent age, very much a shipbuilder?s model of the old style with its turned pillar supports and heavy mahogany baseboard. It is one of the last models to show the 'builder's style' in model construction in the Museum?s collection. The distinctive colours of the Palm Line, for whom the vessel was built, and who presented the model to the NMM, can be seen on the funnel. Details include accommodation ladders rigged on both port and starboard sides of the model, which in reality would be unusual. The Bamenda Palm herself was built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson. She had a number of owners and name changes during the course of her life and was sold for scrap in 1983.
caption: Bamenda Palm - starboard broadside
caption: Bamenda Palm - stern detail
caption: Bamenda Palm - bow 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 Bamenda Palm 1956 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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