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Description: | Scale: 1:48. Full hull model of the 'Aim' (1840), a topsail schooner. The model is built plank on frame and is decked, equipped and rigged, including a small tender stowed in the waist. The hull is inscribed ?Aim London? on the stern, and although despite its name and port of registry, it has not been possible to trace an actual schooner of this name. At this scale, the model represents a vessel measuring 90 feet in length by 20 feet in the beam. It was formery part of the Mercury Collection.
CA: AAA. The name H Smith appears the hull. This person has not yet been identified.
caption: Aim - starboard broadside
caption: Aim - bow three quarter
caption: Aim - stern quarter
caption: 'Aim', starboard broadside
caption: 'Aim'
caption: 'Aim', port 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 James Caird full hull ship models Aim 1840 Mercury Naval College (Mercury Collection) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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