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Description: | Scale: 1:48. Shipbuilders half block model of cargo vessels Anna (1871) Britannia (1874), Germania (1874), Josefa (1872) and Virginia (1871). The hull is made entirely in wood and constructed in bread and butter fashion, finished in natural varnished wood below the waterline. The upperworks and bulwarks are finished in black gloss. The clipper shaped bow is complete with trailboards which run into a pair of thin, half-round upper wales running the length of the hull just below deck level. The deck is finished in natural wood and varnished, and is fitted with three stump masts (modern) also in natural wood and varnished. The backboard has been incorporated into the model: the upper edge of the deck along the centre line drops down to a moulded curve acting as a backboard to the hull.
model inscribed "Virginia 143 Anna 257 Josefa 159 Germania 175 & Britannia 178". Deck inscribed "Scale 1/4 " to 1'".
CA: AAB.
caption: Virginia 1871 - broadside | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Anna 1871 Greenwich Virginia 1871 Britannia 1874 Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Josefa 1872 Germania 1874 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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