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Description: | Scale: Unknown. The model is made entirely in wood and shows a section of slipway or dock floor mounted with a series of wooden blocks and keel wedges. The model is stained and varnished and consists of sixteen individual blocks of wood on top of which are a series of V-shaped wedges which would support the keel of a ship during construction or maintenance within a dry dock or slipway. The baseboard is a long rectangular shape and has a wedge shaped insert for a thumb to presumably pull it out from another part of the model. There is a small gap before the keel blocks start at the highest point and gradually reduce in size.
CA: AAB.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce.
caption: Keel blocks on slipway | 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 keel blocks Mr Read models (representations) Naval Models Catalogue South Kensington Museum | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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