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Description: | Scale: 1:100. A full hull block model of the Santa Catarina de Monte Sina (1510), a four-masted Portuguese carrack. The model is finished in natural wood, with individual hull and deck plankings pinned to a solid block. It is complete with four stump masts, two of which show their keyed construction. There is a bowsprit and bumpkin at the bow and stern. There is a carved figurehead at the bow resembling the head of a dragon displaying its tongue. Other deck features include gratings, bulkheads with doors and ladders for access to the poop deck. The model is mounted on two crutches pinned to the original baseboard.
CA: ABB.
The ?Santa Catarina de Monte Sina? was built at Cochin, India in 1510 and measured 135 feet in length by 42 feet in the beam and was approximately 1000 tons burden. This type of vessel bore the vast wealth of the East Indies and the Americas to Europe. They were also present in considerable numbers in the Spanish Armada of 1588.
caption: Santa Catarina de Monte Sina (1510) - port broadside
caption: Santa Catarina de Monte Sina (1510) - port 3/4 bow
caption: Santa Catarina de Monte Sina (1510) - starboard stern quarter | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Santa Catarina de Monte Sina 1510 Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Unknown blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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