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Description: | Scale: 1:108. A waterline model of a coastal monitor (circa 1870) made in wood and metal with organic material fittings and painted. The model is a toy thus it is inaccurate in terms of details and proportions. The depicted vessel appears to be rigged as a brig. It has a number of working features such as revolving gun turrets and a large section of deck can be removed to show the gun deck armament, stores and other features. The hull is painted black overall with a gold or ochre strake completely encircling it. Fittings and features include a ram bow; guard rail completely encircling the forecastle, main deck and aft deck; single, large, circular, white-painted gun turret, with two guns and a guard rail on its roof; two masts, the main having three yards with furled sails the mizzen having a single aft yard; single cream-painted funnel with four ventilators; companion ladder rigged to the starboard quarter; and four ship?s boats, two of which are stowed at the stern. The model is mounted on a baseboard stylistically painted to resemble the sea and displayed in a wooden case, with a painted backdrop sky, the frame painted blue and glazed at the openable front.
CA: BBC.
caption: Coastal monitor in case - starboard broadside
caption: Coastal monitor in case - bow three quarter
caption: Coastal monitor in case - stern quarter
caption: Coastal monitor in case - broadside with deck off | 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 waterline models models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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