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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of a proposed troopship made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted to resemble weathered copper below the waterline and black above. There is a well for the rudder which is either missing or was not originally fitted. Fittings include small figurehead, stump fore, main, and mizzen masts, and a single stump funnel painted ochre. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame with bevelled edge. On plaque attached to lower right-hand corner of backboard: ?Troop ship proposed by Messrs J C Mare & CO in 1864 For the direct transport of troops between England and India?.
CA: BAC. Some of the decking missing.
caption: Troopship 1864 - broadside
caption: Troopship 1864 - figurehead | 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) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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