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Description: | Scale: Unknown. Model depicting the lower mast of HMS 'Pique' (1845), a sailing frigate of 36 guns. The model mast is made of individual pieces held together by iron hoops. It is also fitted with cheeks and knees to support the platform or fighting top whilst the heel of the mast is complete with a square foot which would locate onto the mast step on the keelson. It would appear that the model is made of mahogany which is stained and varnished and there is a hand written, slightly illegible inscription on the aft side of the mast which reads 'Rd octr 30..'
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Catalogue for Naval models at the South Kensington Museum, 1865, page 228 number 338, entry reads 'Lower mast of H.M.S Pique with additional fishes securred by iron hoops, showing the plan adopted by Captain Stopford for fishing and repairing it in 1845, when it was found defective.'
caption: Repaired lower mast of HMS pique 1846
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | 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 Pique 1845 models (representations) masts Naval Models Catalogue South Kensington Museum | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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