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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A model of the starboard side of the Whitgift (1895). Made entirely in wood with silver-plated metal fittings and painted details. The hull is carved from wood, the lower half of which is laminated revealing different cross-grains, the effect simulating stylised planking. The hull below the waterline is varnished or polished, and painted black above. On starboard bow "Whitgift". The through deck is made from a single piece of wood and scored to resemble plating. Deck fittings include a number of tall ventilators with red inserts, a forward bridge wing, hatches with hatch covers indicated in pen, derricks, a truncated fore and main mast, single black painted funnel, a bridge house with flying bridge, two boats stowed on davits and a rail running the entire length of the ship's side. The model is displayed in its original mahogany-framed display case, with glazed front, sides and top. Plaque inscribed "Whitgift. No 321 Built by Joseph L Thompson & Sons Ltd 1895 Sunderland".
Case needs reglazing.
caption: Whitgift 1895 | 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 Whitgift 1895 blocks Joseph L. Thompson & Sons Ltd models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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