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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A contemporary half block model of HMS Diamond (1848), a 28 gun sixth rate sloop. A plaque is inscribed "206 Diamond 28 guns, 1848. Scale 1/48 (1/4inch to 1'). Built at Sheerness. In Black Sea 1854, became a mission ship at North Shields under the name Joseph Straker, 1872. Dimensions gun deck 140ft beam 42ft 2in.". The number "40" is on the backboard and "206" on a label.
CA: BAB.Cited as coming from the Admiralty, Somerset House according to Callender's Ledger (NMM 22/1).
Built at Sheerness. In Black Sea 1854, became a mission ship at North Shields under the name Joseph Straker, 1872. Dimensions gun deck 140ft beam 42ft 2in
caption: HMS Diamond (1848) Half Block Ship Model
caption: HMS Diamond (1848) - 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 Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue blocks Diamond 1848 models (representations) South Kensington Museum Naval Models Catalogue | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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