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Emilia
Scale: 1:50. A modern exhibition model of the Baltic galeas ?Emelia? (1889). It is fully rigged with sails bent onto the yards and mounted its original wooden glazed display case. On deck are a number of fittings including two wooden gangplanks with sack barrows for loading and unloading the cargo.
The ?Emelia? was built in the parish of Hammarland in the �land Islands and had a tonnage of sixty-five registered. This type of vessel was developed on the coasts of Sweden and Finland in the areas at the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia where the two-masted fore and aft schooner-rig proved handy to work by a crew of two, similar to the sprit rig of the Thames sailing barges in the UK. They were employed in carrying firewood for their farmer owners? wood lots to Stockholm and Abo. After 1890, they were increasingly in the general coastal trade of the eastern Baltic.
The Emelia was built in the parish of Hammarland in the �land Islands and had a tonnage of 65 registered. This type of vessel was developed on the coasts of Sweden and Finland in the areas at the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia where the two-masted fore and aft schooner-rig proved handy to work by a crew of two, similar to the sprit rig of the Thames sailing barges in the UK. They were employed in carrying firewood for their farmer owners? wood lots to Stockholm and Abo. After 1890, they were increasingly in the general coastal trade of the eastern Baltic.
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caption: Emilia - Two masted schooner 1889 - Port broadside
caption: Emilia - Two masted schooner 1889 - Bow three quarter
caption: Emilia - Two masted schooner 1889 - Stern quarter
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | 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 Emelia 1889 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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