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Description: | Scale: 1:192. A full hull model of the second class battleship HMS Renown (1895), made entirely in silver and depicted moored to a buoy. Hull fittings include two pairs of hawse holes on the port and starboard sides, retracted torpedo net booms, two companion ladders each rigged to the port and starboard sides, and canopied open stern gallery. The depicted vessel is two-masted with two crow?s nests set on the foremast, and with a single crow?s nest on the mainmast. Flags are flying at the bow, stern ensign staff and from the top of the mainmast. Other fittings and features include two gun turrets fore and aft; nest of boats stowed on chocks amidships and a further eight boats of various types rigged to davits; two tall vertical funnels positioned side-by-side; and inscribed decks resembling planking. The model is displayed on an oval, ebonised plinth with deep, sculpted, concave edge and a silver plaque mounted on the starboard side of the model in the form of a shield or crest.
CA: AAB.
caption: starboard broadside
caption: bow three quarter
caption: stern quarter
caption: boats
caption: HMS 'Renown', starboard broadside
caption: HMS 'Renown', port 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 Renown 1895 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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