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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the port side of the armoured cruiser HMS Imperieuse (1883), made entirely in wood and painted pink-brown below the waterline and black above. Hull details include a reinforced ram bow; two hawse holes; two large gun mounting insets, fore and aft; central gun placement; two intermittent rows of portholes; stern quarter galleries; rudder; and propeller shaft casings and mounting. Other fittings include forward gun, painted black; stump foremast and mainmast; two stump funnels, painted ochre; gun amidships; and what appear to be three circular turrets, painted off-white. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame with bevelled edge. Plaque missing from top left-hand corner of backboard.
CA: AAB.
caption: Imperieuse 1883 - 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 Imperieuse 1883 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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