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Description: | Scale: 1:16. A full hull model of the Manx nobby Gladys (1901). Made entirely in wood with wood, metal and organic material fittings and painted in realistic colours. The carvel double-ended hull is painted black below the waterline and bulwarks, a triangular white section at the bow, and dark green above the waterline. Hull details include unpainted gunwales; hawse hole; and steeply-raked stern with rudder. The depicted vessel is two-masted, lug-rigged, with a bowsprit. Four sails are set in total including a jib sail set of the bowsprit. The masts, yards, bowsprit and boom are all polished wood and the sails are made from brick red material. Other fittings include a nine-foot dinghy painted mostly white, fish boxes, a bucket, anchor and spare ropes. There is also a helmsman smoking a pipe at the stern, holding the tiller. The model is mounted on a pair of decoratively carved wooden supports with barrel-like tops and displayed on a rectangular wooden baseboard with sloping edges. On port and starboard bows ?Gladys PL 61?. On stern quarters ?Peel PL 61?. On the mainsail ?PL 61?.
CA: BBB.
caption: 'Gladys', starboard broadside
caption: Gladys 1901 - starboard broadside
caption: Gladys 1901 - starboard stern quarter
caption: Gladys 1901 - port three quarter bow
caption: 'Gladys', starboard � bow deck | 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 Gladys 1901 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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