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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A full hull model of a 24-gun, sixth-rate sloop (circa 1740). The model is decked. Below the running strakes, it is in block form. It has a lead keel, suggesting that it was a sailing model.
The model?s dimensions do not conform exactly to the 1733 Establishment for 20-gun ships, and represents a sloop longer (at 114� feet) and slightly lighter (at 471 tons burden) than the 24-gunners of 1741.
The name ?Blandford? has been associated with this model, though no ships of that name had the dimensions shown by the model. The ?Blandford? was a 20-gun vessel, carrying twenty 9-pound guns, built to 1733 specifications and launched at Deptford in 1741. Some 1733 ?20s? were later reclassified as ?24s?.
CA: ABB.
The model?s dimensions do not conform exactly to the 1733 Establishment for 20-gun ships, and represents a sloop longer (at 114� feet) and slightly lighter (at 471 tons burden) than the 24-gunners of 1741.
The name Blandford has been associated with this model, though no ships of that name had the dimensions shown by the model. The Blandford was a 20-gun vessel, carrying twenty 9-pound guns, built to 1733 specifications and launched at Deptford in 1741. Some 1733 ?20s? were later reclassified as ?24s?.
caption: Ship of 24-guns, port broadside
caption: Ship of-24 guns, port 3/4 bow
caption: Ship of 24-guns, starboard 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 James Caird full hull ship models Mercury Naval College (Mercury Collection) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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