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Description: | Scale: 1:96. A contemporary full hull and rigged model of HMY Fairy (1845). The model is decked, rigged with three masts and spars and equipped with a variety of fittings including a capstan, binnacle, wheel, pumps, a full set of boats slung from davits, and a number of skylights along the deck to give illumination down below. An inscription on the bottom of the base reads ?model of HM Yacht Fairy designed and built by T I Ditchburn of Blackwall, 1845?.
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The first tender to the Victoria and Albert (I) (SLR0813), the iron screw yacht Fairy was built at Blackwall by Ditchburn and Mare in 1844. It was launched and commissioned in 1845 and measured 146 feet in length by 21 feet in the beam with a tonnage of 312 burden. The Fairy accompanied the Victoria and Albert yacht on voyage and her first duty was to attend the Royal Yacht in Antwerp and take the Queen and Prince Albert on board for their cruise in the shallow waters of the Scheldt. It also sailed many times to Scotland during the summer months as well as conveying members of the Royal Family to and from Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She was replaced by the Alberta (see SLR0947) in 1863 and finally broken up in 1868. See also SLR0196 and SLR0208, other models of Fairy.
caption: 'Fairy' (1845) - port broadside
caption: 'Fairy' (1845) - bow three quarter
caption: 'Fairy' (1845) - stern quarter
caption: HMY 'Fairy', port broadside
caption: HMY 'Fairy', port stern quarter | 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 Fairy 1845 full hull ship models Yachting | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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