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Description: | Scale: 1:6. Full hull model of a sailing lifeboat from about 1807. This early pulling and sailing lifeboat is fitted internally with large wooden barrels to increase its buoyancy. A single drop-keel was lowered by hand-crank when under sail. The clinker-built hull is fitted with scuppers below the wooden fender, to drain the decks when flooded by seawater. by seawater.
CA: BBC. Two barrels at the stern are detached.
caption: Full hull model, sailing lifeboat, port � bow
caption: Full hull model, sailing lifeboat, port broadside
caption: Full hull model, sailing lifeboat, starboard broadside
caption: Full hull model, sailing lifeboat, 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 full hull ship models | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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