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Description: | Scale: 1:60. A full hull model of a Venetian cocca or cog (circa 1525). The hull is painted white below the waterline and the remainder of the hull, deck, masts and yards are painted a dark maroon. Details such as the stern gallery, decoration, and gunwales have been painted ochre yellow. The model is square rigged on the fore and main masts and lateen rigged on the mizzen and bonaventure masts. There is a short bowsprit. The main standing and running rigging has been depicted and there is a crows nest on the main mast. There is an open hatch cover in the waist, and two sets of steps on the poop and forecastle. The model is displayed on its original 19th century baseboard which has been decoratively fashioned and painted black. The model has a plaque inscribed: "Spanish vessel of the 15th century. Type of vessel in which Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492."
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The model depicts a vessel measuring approximately 100 feet in length by 35 feet in the beam and weighing 200 tons burden. It is the four-masted rig with a combination of lateen and square sails that began to evolve in northern Europe and lasted well into the early part of the 17th century.
caption: Starboard broadside
caption: Starboard stern quarter
caption: Port three quarter bow
caption: Cocca | 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 Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue full hull ship models Abraham Dixon | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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