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Description: | Scale: 1:96. Topographic model of the Goss Shipyard, Calstock, Cornwall (circa 1905). The model is made almost entirely of wood with some metal fittings and illustrates the process of wooden shipbuilding from wood in the round with bark, through to cut and seasoned components as well as repairing ships afloat. There are five buildings, one is a brick-built pub called the James Passage Inn, the other are wooden built sheds. There are a variety of small craft, a long wooden steam box, a saw pit together with an assortment of trees and vegetation. There are three vessels, including an incomplete hull with keel, floors and frames, the topsail schooner Sunbeam of Chester and the brigantine Rhoda Mary of Falmouth moored just off the foreshore. The model depicts a variety of workers preparing, constructing and maintaining wooden vessels.
Model has a painted backdrop.
CA: AAA.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce.
caption: Calstock shipyard - overall view
caption: Calstock shipyard - detail of boat sheds
caption: Calstock shipyard - detail steaming box and smithery
caption: Calstock shipyard - three masted schooner Rhoda Mary and two masted schooner Sunbeam
caption: Calstock shipyard - saw pit and wood yard | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | topographic models Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Kenneth Britten models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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