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Description: | Scale 1:48. A half block model of the starboard side of the prawn smack Queen Alexandra (circa 1907) made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted copper brown below the waterline, black above. Details include a narrow strake with a gold decorative line just above it, gunwale, overhanging stern and unusually-shaped rudder. The model is displayed on a rectangular wooden backboard. On starboard bow ?LN223 Queen Alexandra?. On label on the reverse of backboard ?A building model for a Lynn Prawn Smack made and designed [sic] by Worfolk & Son, Kings Lynn 1907. She proved to be the fastest sailing boat in the Wash. These smacks had to return to port between tides and often sailed out 40 miles to their fishing grounds, making 1 or 2 hauls. Presented by T.C. Lethbridge Gr. Shelford (? illegible) Cambs. C F Tebbutt St. Neots. Hunts (? illegible)?.
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caption: Smack Queen Alexandria - broadside
caption: 'Queen Alexandra', label on back of mounting board
caption: 'Queen Alexandra', starboard 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 Queen Alexandra 1907 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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