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Description: | Scale: 1:12. A full hull model of an eight-oared whaleboat (circa 1870) made entirely in wood with metal fittings, varnished or polished and painted in realistic colours. The hull is made plank-on-frame and clinker-built, the exterior of which is unpainted wood with white strakes, black wash strakes and unpainted gunwales. The interior hull is painted cream below the thwarts, white above with a black-painted connecting frame between the two surfaces. Fittings and equipment include four pairs of rowlocks mounted on the gunwale, four thwarts with whit-painted ends, a rudder complete with a gunmetal or brass yoke (rope steering lines missing) and a mast thwart for rigging a single mast for sailing. In the stern sheets, there is a backboard inscribed with the letters ?HMC?.
CA: AAA.
caption: Full hull model, 8-oared whaleboat, starboard � bow interior
caption: Double ended whaleboat - port broadside and oars
caption: Double ended whaleboat - starboard three quarter bow
caption: Double ended whaleboat - stern quarter port
caption: Full hull model, 8-oared whaleboat, starboard broadside | 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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