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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the starboard side of the first class battleship HMS Majestic (1895), made entirely in wood and painted pink-brown below the waterline and black above. Hull details include a ram bow; two rows of portholes; and rudder (currently missing). The deck, superstructures and most of the fittings are painted a uniform grey. Features and fittings include a pair of turrets fore and aft, the guns painted black; bridge abaft the forward turret and smaller superstructure forward of the aft turret; single funnel mounting with a stump funnel, painted ochre; and stump mast. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame. Both the mast and funnel extend vertically just beyond the frame of the backboard. On plaque attached to top right-hand side of backboard ?Majestic?.
CA: AAB.
caption: HMS Majestic 1895 - 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 Majestic 1895 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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