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Description: | Scale:Unknown. Sectional model depicting the midship upper gun deck of HMS Victory (1765), a first rate 100 gun warship. The model is constructed plank on frame and finished in a natural varnished wood. The model illustrates a section of the hull which includes a single gunport surrounded by planking both externally and internally, a section of the unplanked deck with the beams, knees, carlings and ledges exposed, hatch coambing and a laid deck with fitted treenails. There is also a fully equipped canon, turned in brass and finished in a bronze/black colour, mounted on a four- wheeled wooden carriage complete with rope rigging. Other equipment includes a wooden bucket with brass strapping, a flexible rope rammer/sponger, a pair of wooden spikes, 19 out of 23 metal shot mounted on the hatch garlands and hanging in metal supports from the deck beam is a wormer, sponger and rammer.
CA: AAB.
caption: Sectional model of Victory 1766
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Victory (1765) Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum models (representations) sectional models | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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