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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A half block plating model of a grab dredger made entirely in wood with black inscribed markings and varnished a golden brown finish. The hull is double-ended, straight-sided and flat-bottomed with a shallow angle to the stem and stern. Markings consist of regularly-spaced vertical and horizontal lines and a number of hand-rendered numerals and letters. The model is displayed on a rectangular wooden backboard with straight bevelled edges of a similar colour and finish to the model itself. Hand-rendered in black ink on bottom centre of backboard ?Priestmans Grab dredger hull Job No C/8340/W Yard No 677?. Hand-rendered in black ink on right-hand side of backboard ?Principal dimensions Length BP 70'-0" Breadth MLD 26'-0" Depth MLD 5'-9" ?.
CA: AAC.
caption: Grab dredger - broadside
caption: Grab dredger - deck 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 plating models (representations) Priestman (designer) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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