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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A sectional model showing the framing of the Royal yacht Victoria & Albert (1843), a wooden paddle vessel. It depicts a diagonal system of construction with only a partial frame, but with three thicknesses of planking worked in different directions. The model has been made in wood and varnished. The frames are arranged in pairs and there are six frames in total. There are small sections of two pairs of deck beams located one above the other, and these deck beams also show small sections of deck attached to them.
The exterior hull shows two layers of diagonal framing, one applied over the other, and there is a separating material between the two layers of planking depicted by coloured and varnished paper on the model. The upper layer of diagonal framing is depicted in two strips. A third layer of planking is also depicted in the form of horizontal planking, and only the upper most planking and lower most planking is depicted. Two gun ports are depicted. A long piece of wood has been broken off at the base of the model, exposing several metal pins, possibly where the model was fixed to a baseboard. Above the upper section of deck a paper label has been applied to the rail, marked "4".
CA: AAA.
caption: Victoria and Albert 1843 - interior showing frames and planking
caption: Victoria and Albert 1843 - exterior layers of planking | 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 models (representations) Victoria and Albert I 1843 (HMY) Naval Models Catalogue sectional models South Kensington Museum | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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