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Description: | Armament - Eight 4.7" Q.F. guns - Twelve 3 pdr Q.F. guns - One 7 pdr R.M.L. gun - Sixteen Nordenfelts - Eight 18" & Twenty-six 14" Whitehead torpedoes. Torpedo Tubes -Two submerged & Four above water H.P. of Engines - Forced Draught 12, 000 NAT: 7200 Speed at Full Power knots 20
Ft ins. Length extreme 373-0 Length between Perpendiculars 350-0 Breadth extreme 58-0 Draught of water - for'd 22-0 Aft 24-0 Displacement tons 6620 Coal carried tons 1000 Compliment of Officers and Men 432
HMS "Vulcan" Scale 1/16 in = 1 Foot
Scale: Unknown. Half block model of HMS Vulcan (1889), a torpedo depot ship made entirely from wood with metal fittings. The lower hull is painted a pink-red with the upperworks and bulwarks painted black and divided by a thin white line at the waterline. The lower hull is fitted with a rudder and a prop shaft at the stern, whilst the bow is fitted with a ram. The upper portion of the hull is complete with a number of circular portholes, a single hawsepipes at the bow painted red internally and a pair of guns mounted in a cylindrical turret amidships. The main deck is finished in natural wood and varnished with the individual planks scored on. There is a raised deck amidships and a small quarterdeck both of which are painted a light brown colour whilst the small foredeck is finished in a battleship grey. There are a pair of circular funnels slightly raked and painted a yellow-brown colour with a small charthouse and bridge wing fitted on the raised bridge deck. Fixtures and fittings include a pair of stump masts painted a pink-red colour, a forward conning tower, skylights, deck hatches and bollards all painted white. The whole model is mounted on a wooden backboard which has been overlayed with either paper or card, painted a yellow-brown colour surrounded by a moulded edge painted black.
CA: AAB.
caption: Half hull model - HMS Vulcan | 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 blocks models (representations) Vulcan 1889 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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