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Description: | Scale: not calculated. An interesting proposal for a twin-screw, twin-turret coastal monitor (circa 1880). The hull is an extraordinary lozenge shape with a flat bottom. The turrets, set widely apart at the fore and aft of the vessel, each have two guns. There is very little else in terms of deck fittings, three skylights and what could be a covered hatch cover. Despite the screws there are no funnels or any suggestion of an engine. Its sculptural shape is like nothing that ever existed in the late 19th century. The model came to the Museum from the Mercury Training School on the River Hamble.
CA: BAC. Starboard gunwale detached.
caption: Twin turret monitor - port broadside
caption: Twin turret monitor - port three quarter
caption: Twin turret monitor - starboard quarter
caption: Twin turret monitor - detail of rudder and propelor | 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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