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Description: | Scale: 1:16. A half block model of the starboard side of a ship's launch (circa 1865) made entirely of wood and painted. The hull has a straight stem and transom stern, and is painted white below the waterline and black above. Features include the stem post, keel, stern post and there is an unusual s-shaped joint at the extreme starboard quarter. The model is displayed on a rectangular wooden backboard, painted cream, with a mahogany-stained bevelled frame. Inscribed in the centre of the bottom edge of the frame ?42Ft launch old pattern?.
CA: BAB. This model may represent one of those listed in 1913 and be an example of the "old pattern" superceded by the "improved form" described in the 1869 catalogue.
caption: Launch old pettern - 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) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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