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Description: | Scale: Unknown. Sectional model showing the port bow of HMS Volage (1869), an iron screw corvette. The model has been carved from a single piece of wood and painted in realistic colours; the deck is painted buff yellow, the hull below the waterline in dark brick red and black above with yellow boot topping. Four rectangular port holes have been painted in a single row, and a hawse hole. The model has a pronounced keel. There are two paper labels on the upper deck face of the model one of which reads "No.15. Case. Cumb'l'd Room. (11)". A paper label has been applied to the black area of the hull marked "887". Two hanging brackets have been mounted to the rear face, and the remains of a bowsprit and foremast can be seen.
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caption: Volage 1869 | 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 Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue Volage 1869 models (representations) Naval Models Catalogue sectional models South Kensington Museum | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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