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Description: | Scale: 1:16. A contemporary full hull model of a lifeboat circa 1851. Carved in the solid in ?bread and butter? fashion, it is complete with deck, eight thwarts and air cases at the bow and stern. Additional buoyancy is provided by rounded air cases under the gunwale internally and a cork fender externally. It is pulled by up to 14 oars through double thole pins, steered by rudder, and is fitted with six relieving tubes either side of the keel should the hull become swamped. There are two quarter bollards fitted just aft of the bow air case which were used for towing and also warping down to a casualty when using a canvas sea anchor, or drogue. The label reads ?Lifeboat Fitted with air cases on the inside, and with cork fender on the outside. Proposed by Mr Harvey, late modeller at the Admiralty, Somerset House, in 1851?.
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This model was one of 280 entries that competed for the Duke of Northumberland?s Premium, a competition to find the best design of lifeboat in 1851. The prize of ?one hundred guineas? was awarded to James Beeching of Great Yarmouth, who produced a double-ended self-righting design. However, the committee later decided that Beeching?s design could be improved and they asked James Peake, Master Shipwright at H M Dockyard, Woolwich, to combine all the best features of the top entries. It was his design that was eventually accepted as the standard class of lifeboat and adopted nationally by the RNLI (See SLR2509). There are also two other models by this maker in the collection, see SLR0674, Lacedaemonian and HMY Victoria and Albert, SLR0811.
caption: Full hull model, lifeboat, port � bow
caption: Lifeboat - starboard broadside
caption: Lifeboat - bow three quarter
caption: Lifeboat - stern quarter
caption: Full hull model, lifeboat, starboard broadside | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | David Greenwich Harvey 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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