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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the starboard side of the three-masted cargo barque Galathee (1884), made entirely in wood, painted and polished. The hull is polished wood below the waterline and black above with details drawn onto it including five port lids depicted in a half-open position. The hull has a clipper bow. Fittings include figurehead, a stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast and mizzen mast, forecastle and poop, portholes beneath poop deck, rudder, and hawse hole. The model is displayed on a rectangular wooden backboard with bevelled edge frame (short sides of frame missing). On starboard bow ?Galathee?. On plaque attached to bottom right-hand corner of backboard ?Alexr. Stephen & Sons Shipbuilders & Engineers Glasgow?.
CA: AAB.
caption: Galathee 1884 - broadside
caption: Galathee 1884 - figurehead | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Galathee 1884 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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