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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the starboard side of the scout cruiser HMS Adventure (1904), made entirely in wood and painted pink-brown below the waterline, a narrow white stripe above, black above the waterline. Hull features include two rows of portholes; starboard bilge keel; and a balanced rudder. Other features and fittings include a long fore deck with a gun mounted, painted black, foremast and bridge; long superstructure supporting four funnels inline, all painted ochre, funnels one and four being more slender than funnels two and three; a total of five ventilators, painted ochre, four of which are positioned abaft each funnel; and single gun aft. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame. On plaque attached to top right-hand side of backboard ?Adventure?.
CA: AAB.
caption: Adventure 1904 - broadside
caption: unavailable | 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 Adventure (1904) blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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