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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the starboard side of the third class cruiser HMS Bellona (1890), made entirely in wood and painted pink-brown below the waterline, a narrow white stripe above and black above the waterline. Hull details include starboard hawse hole and a balanced rudder. Other features and fittings include a foredeck with wave deflector and stump foremast; main deck with two stump funnels with two ventilators, all painted ochre, and stump mainmast; and aft deck with stump mizzen and small gun. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame. Inscribed on a plaque attached to top right-hand side of backboard is the name ?Bellona?.
CA: BAC. Two gun ports missing.
caption: HMS Bellona (1890) - broadside | 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) Bellona 1890 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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