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Description: | Scale: Unknown. Half block models of the starboard side of the bow and stern of a warship made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The hull of both models is painted brick red below the waterline, with a narrow white stripe above and black above the waterline. The bow section has a recessed area close to the starboard bow and the stern section has a similar recessed part close to the stern quarter. The stern part also has provision for a single propeller. The models are mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard with a space between them. The backboard is painted off-white with a bevelled mahogany edge. On plaque affixed to the bottom centre of the backboard in the gap between the two hulls ?Half models, bow & stern, showing plan of indented ports. Class 1 Div. B.?.
CA: BBC.
caption: Bow and stern of 19th c. warship - 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 models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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