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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A shipbuilders half block design model of HMS Erebus (1856), an iron screw floating battery (coastal defence / monitor). The model is made in wood using bread and butter construction and gauged out internally. The shallow-drafted hull below the waterline is finished in a copper-brown colour and fitted with a rudder at the stern and an aperture for the screw (missing), with vertical stem at the bow. The upperworks to deck level are painted black divided by a thin white line along the waterline. The hull is pierced at bulwark level with 15 gunports. The hull has a flush deck painted creamy-white, matching the colour of the backboard. The backboard has a moulded, stained mahogany edge. Number '16' on backboard.
Number "(16)" on backboard.
CA: AAB.
caption: Erebus 1856 - 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 Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue blocks Erebus 1856 models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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