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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the starboard side of the composite screw gun vessels HMS Frolic (1872), HMS Rifleman (1872), HMS Ready (1872) and HMS Kestrel (1872) made entirely in wood, painted ochre overall and marked for plating and indicating principal hull fittings. The plating lines are finely scribed in black penwork. Fittings include a stump bowsprit, foremast (currently missing), mainmast and mizzen mast, and rudder. On plaque applied to backboard ?Frolic, Rifleman, Ready, Kestrel ?. On plaques ?Frolic composite gunboat floated out 29-2-72 ?, ?Kestrel composite gunboat floated out 29-2-72 ? and ?Ready composite gunboat launched 24-2-72 ?.
CA: AAC. Model has fire damage.
caption: Frolic 1872 - 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 Frolic 1872 Rifleman 1872 blocks Ready 1872 models (representations) Kestrel 1872 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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