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Description: | Scale: not calculated. The model depicts a flat-bottomed, double-ended, lifting lighter, of around 1900. A slot-shaped well in the centre of the vessel is open to the water and, through this, pass four in-line steel lifting cables that feed around fairleads, drum-shaped capstans, and through eight retaining vice-like devices on the deck. We can see from the model that the vessel had a wooden deck and a plated steel hull. The model, too, is made from wood and metal and the fittings include a large square-shaped rudder, hand operated breaking devices for the cables, white-painted hood and an anchor windlass, forward. The model still retains its smart figured mahogany base and turned brass pillar supports, though its case cover is now lost.
CA: AAB. Case missing.
caption: Lifting Lighter - port broadside
caption: Lifting Lighter - port three quarter view
caption: Lifting Lighter - starboard quarter view
caption: Lifting Lighter - slot in centre of hull | 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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