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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the port side of the battleship HMS Collingwood (1882), made entirely in wood and painted pink-brown below the waterline, a narrow white stripe above and black above the waterline. Hull details include a reinforced ram bow; single row of portholes fore and aft; bulwarks amidships with rectangular gunports; rudder (currently missing); and port propeller shaft casing and mounting. Other features and fittings include fore deck with a gun mounted on a ten-sided conical-shaped turret; superstructure amidships accommodating bridge, two funnels painted off-white with ochre tops, and stump mainmast; and aft deck with identical gun and turret to that on the foredeck. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame. On plaque attached to top right-hand side of backboard ?Collingwood?.
CA: BAC.
caption: HMS Collingwood 1882 - broadside | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Collingwood 1882 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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