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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the port side of the first class battleship HMS King Edward VII (1903), made entirely in wood and painted pink-brown below the waterline and grey above. Hull details include a ram bow; two rows of portholes fore and aft; port hawse hole and bilge keel; and balanced rudder. The gun turrets, superstructures and most of the fittings are painted a uniform grey. Features and fittings include a pair of large gun turrets fore and aft, with a smaller pair mounted on the port side fore and aft of amidships; bridge abaft the forward turret and smaller superstructure forward of the aft turret; two funnel mountings with a stump funnels; and stump foremast and mainmast. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame.
CA: BAB.
caption: King Edward VII - 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 King Edward VII 1903 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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