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Description: | Scale: 1:12. A contemporary full hull model of a boom boat (1852), complete with a deck, frames, a landing ramp in the bow and four pairs of swivelling metal clamps used for securing cargo. Built and designed to be stored in the area between the fore and main masts, known as the boom, these boats were used to store the spare topmasts and spars when on board the mother ship. They were generally rowed with two to three pairs of oars and this model is said to represent one that was carried on board HMS 'Thetis?, a 32-gun frigate launched in 1846. She went to the Prussian Navy in exchange for two gunboats in 1855.
CA: BBC.
caption: Boom boat - starboard broadside
caption: Boom boat - port three quarter view
caption: Boom boat - 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 Thetis 1852 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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