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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the port side of the corvette HMS Blanche, and her sister ships HMS Danae, HMS Dido, HMS Eclipse (all 1867), HMS Sirius, HMS Spartan (both 1868) and HMS Tenedos (1870), made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted to resemble weathered copper below the waterline and black above. There is a well for the propeller which is either missing or was not originally fitted. other hull details include six rectangular gunports, rudder and a single row of portholes. Fittings include stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast, and mizzen mast, and a single stump funnel painted ochre. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame with bevelled edge.
CA: BAB.
caption: HMS Blanche 1867 - broadside | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Spartan 1868 Danae 1867 Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Tenedos 1870 Sirius 1868 blocks Eclipse 1867 models (representations) Dido 1869 Blanche 1867 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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