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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A block design model of the ?Lion? (1725), a 50-gun, small two-decker. Regular parallel lines have been inscribed across the poop deck. The name ?Lion? is on port broadside and ?The Lion? on the stern. In spite of the inscription on the model it does not relate to a ship named the ?Lion?. The gun dimensions are those of a 50-gun ship on the Establishment of 1719, whereas the ?Lion? of 1710 and her successor of 1738 were both 60-guns.
This type of ship, like the ?Falkland? (SLR0414), was the smallest of the vessels used in the line of battle, and they were mainly used in escort duties. They were 134 feet long, 26 feet broad, weighed 755 tons burden, and had a full complement of 300 men. They carried twenty-two 18-pound guns on their gun decks, twenty-two 9-pounders on their upper decks, four 6-pounders on their quarterdecks and two 6-pounders on their forecastles.
CA: BAB. Referred to as a Portsmouth Dockyard Museum model (cat. No. 9) in Anderson's catalogue (1952).
In spite of the inscription on the model it does not relate to a ship named the ?Lion?.
Label reads "P", "34a" and "Ship of 50 guns, about 1725. Catalogued (1923) under No.9 as the Lion, 64, 1770, but she was a much larger ship and wider in comparison with her length. In spite of the inscription on the model any ship named Lion is impossible. The gun dimensions are those of a 50-gun ship on the Establishment of 1719, whereas the Lion of 1709 and her successor of 1733 were both 60's".
The gun dimensions are those of a 50-gun ship on the Establishment of 1719, whereas the ?Lion? of 1710 and her successor of 1738 were both 60 guns.
This type of ship, like the ?Falkland? (SLR0414), was the smallest of the vessels used in the line of battle, and they were mainly used in escort duties. They were 134 feet long, 26 feet broad, weighed 755 tons burden, and had a full complement of 300 men. They carried twenty-two 18-pound guns on their gun decks, twenty-two 9-pounders on their upper decks, four 6-pounders on their quarterdecks and two 6-pounders on their forecastles.
Fourteen ships were built to the dimensions of the 1719 Establishment, including the ?Greenwich?, which was launched at Chatham in 1731. It saw service off the African coast, in home waters, at Jamaica and off Porto Bello after 1742. It was lost in a hurricane off Jamaica in October 1744.
caption: 'Lion' (1725) - broadside
caption: 'Lion' (1725) - port three quarter view
caption: 'Lion' (1725) - starboard quarter 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 Lion 1725 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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