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Description: | Scale: 1:12. Sectional model showing the method of connecting iron beams adopted for the construction of HMS 'Myrmidon' (1867), designed as a wooden screw gun boat and completed as a survey vessel. The model has been made in wood and varnished and is mounted onto a bevelled wooden baseboard. It is incomplete as the parts representing the deck beams are missing. The baseboard has two paper labels applied to it, a mounted exhibition catalogue entry and a catalogue number "1920-346-c" painted on it. A paper label marked '18' has been applied to the inner face of the hull. The underside of the base is inscribed "H4", "Myrmidon scale 1 inch equals 1 foot Upper deck" and "865". Number "18" on model. Label reads "No.11. Case Cumb'l'd Room (18)".
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caption: HMS 'Mymodon' - design sectional model | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Myrmodon 1861 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 Royal Naval College Museum models (representations) Naval Models Catalogue sectional models South Kensington Museum | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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