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Description: | Scale: 1:12. A full hull model of the East coast beach yawl Bittern (1890) made entirely in wood with wood, metal and organic material fittings and painted in realistic colours. The clinker-built hull, double-ended hull is painted black below the waterline, white above and has a dark wood strake on which is painted a narrow blue stripe. The long flat-bottomed rudder is similarly painted black and white. The depicted vessel is two-masted and lug-rigged with a cream-coloured sail set on each mast. Other features include thwarts, anchor, two boat hooks tiller and boom. The model is displayed on a pair of shaped wooden crutches connected by two stretchers.
CA: AAB.
caption: 'Bittern', port � bow
caption: 'Bittern', port broadside
caption: 'Bittern', starboard broadside
caption: 'Bittern', starboard stern quarter | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Bittern (1890) 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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