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Description: | Scale: about 1:96. Full hull model of a destroyer (circa 1942). A model about which we know little, but is nevertheless interesting as it is unfinished made from tin-plate or, more specifically, from dried milk cans. The instructions for making up the contents can still be read on the unrolled sheet metal that now forms the model?s hull. The sheets, that are not to scale, have been riveted and soldered. The only detail to speak of is the rudder and twin propeller shafts with their mountings. It was, at one time, fitted with an electric motor driving the shafts through bevelled gears, though this equipment is no longer present. The copper-sheet decks have been laid, fore and aft. The model is traditionally believed to depict an ?S?-class destroyer.
CA: BCC. Bob Todd, NMM Specialist Curator of Historic Photographs and Ship Plans, viewed images of the model in July 2005 and commented as follows: The shape of the stern indicates that this has to be a Yarrow destroyer of the R Class (Sabrina and others launched 1916-1917) or S Class (Tomahawk and six others launched 1918-1919. The overhang of the forecastle deck above the iron deck in the R class was very short but the overhang on the S Class was longer, as in the model. However, the forecastle break plating was vertical and not as in the model, where it is curved. Also, the forecastle deck is not long enough to be either of these classes. If I had to give the nearest possibility I would have to plump for a Yarrow S of 1918, but there are many inconsistencies. It must have been built from memory rather than from any form of illustration plan.
caption: Destroyer - port broadside
caption: Destroyer - port three quarter view
caption: Destroyer - starboard quarter view | 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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