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Description: | Scale: 1:5. A model of a 32-foot pulling and sailing cutter (circa 1900) that was transferred to the NMM in 1956 from Devonport dockyard and which has been used there for sea-sense training and instruction. Once rigged we can see that the foremast carries a dipping lugsail, and the mainmast a dipping lugsail and boom.
The model was made by shipwright apprentices in the Royal Dockyard at Plymouth, with great attention to detail and with consummate skill. The strakes forming the clinker hull have been fastened to the frame with copper rivets, all perfectly in line; the gratings have been made and assembled in exactly the same way as real ones, rather than formed from a single piece of wood with the holes punched out. The keel has been weighted with lead, and there is a detachable semi-spherical slug of lead that can be added for good measure.
With a lifesaving capacity of 59 persons, it was one of the standard boats used by ships of the Royal Navy in the early part of the 20th century.
CA: AAA.
caption: Cutter instructional model - port broadside
caption: Cutter instructional model - port three quarter view
caption: Cutter instructional model - 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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