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Description: | Scale: 1:72. A full hull model of the West Country smack Gwendoline (1894). Made entirely in wood with wood, metal and organic material fittings and painted in realistic colours. The vessel is depicted fully equipped and rigged, with the sails set. The hull is carvel-built, plank-on-frame, has an almost vertical stem, transom stern, and painted black which is purposefully weathered. Hull fittings include an anchor rigged to the port side, single strake and rudder with unpainted tiller. The single mast has mainsail and a jackyard topsail, and there are two jib sails on the bowsprit. All the sails are made in off-white material. Other features include a windlass, a tyre being used as a fender and a large hatch. The model is mounted on a pair of shaped squat crutches and displayed on a rectangular wooden baseboard with sloping sides. On port and starboard bows ?Gwendoline?. On stern ?Gwendoline Plymouth?.
CA: AAA.
caption: Gwendoline (1894) - port broadside
caption: Gwendoline (1894) - bow three quarter
caption: Gwendoline (1894) - stern quarter
caption: 'Gwendoline', starboard � bow
caption: 'Gwendoline', starboard broadside
caption: 'Gwendoline', port broadside | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Gwendoline 1894 Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Roe full hull ship models Michael Thomas | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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