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Description: | Class IX DIV B No 46
Scale: Unknown. A model of the method for raising and lowering a propeller made in wood with metal and rope fittings and stained and polished. The model shows a stylised section of stern with its deadwood and rudder post and a propeller well terminating in a cross shaped aperture at deck level. The two bladed propeller does not rotate but is fixed on its shaft in a vertical position. The frame housing the propeller is connected to a series of pulley wheels that can be worked by pulling a large brass toggle. By pulling the toggle the propeller can be raised. Straddling the propeller well at deck level is a brass frame with four pulley wheels that facilitate the operation. The model is displayed on a rectangular mahogany baseboard with bevelled edges.
CA: BBB. Numbers in 1869 catalogue only go up to CLASS IX, DIV B, No 44.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce.
caption: Propellor - method of housing in trunk with tackle screw low
caption: Propellor - method of housing in trunk with tackle screw lraised | 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 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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