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Description: | Scale: 1:24. A model of a side section of HMS Sultan (1870) made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The model shows a side gunport and a second port with two lids one opening upwards and the other sideways with the deck markings indicating how a single gun can use both ports to fire in different directions. The hull section and the internal bulkhead forward are painted black and the remainder of the model is stained and polished a golden brown finish. The gundeck has two pairs of lines marked that radiate from the two ports in angles of fifteen degrees and thirty-seven degrees.
CA: BAC. In the 1876 Royal Naval Museum Catalogue there is mention of 'Sectional model of "Sultans" Battery' in Victory Room, Case 24. The entry has Nil in the columns relating to page references in the South Kensington Catalogue..
caption: HMS Sultan - gun port exterior view
caption: HMS Sultan - gun port interior view | 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 Sultan 1870 models (representations) sectional models South Kensington Museum | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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