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Description: | Scale: 1:24. A half block model of the port side of the torpedo boat HMS Rattlesnake (1886), made entirely in wood with metal fittings and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted brick red below the waterline and black above. Details include ram bow; bow torpedo tube; stump foremast and mainmast; and single funnel painted ochre. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame with bevelled edge. On backboard ?(31)?.
CA: AAB.
caption: HMS Rattlesnake - 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 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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