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Description: | Scale: 1:48?. a full hull model of an open boat made entirely in wood with metal fittings and varnished or polished. The hull has a transom stern and made diagonal plank-on-frame. Fittings include a single strake, painted black; provision for two oars either side with square apertures set into the top strake and plugged; four thwarts; two side seats aft with a further two small stern seats facing one another; and rudder. The model is mounted on a pair of turned wooden pillar supports and displayed on a rectangular mahogany baseboard with rounded edges. On paper label applied to baseboard ?6?.
CA: AAA. Possibly referenced in South Kensington Museum 1869 Catalogue, page 122, CLASS II, DIV F, No 140.
caption: Diagonal planked boat - port broadside
caption: Diagonal planked boat - port three quarter view
caption: Diagonal planked boat - starboard quarter view | 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 full hull ship models South Kensington Museum | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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