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Description: | Armament four 13.5" BL guns Six 6" BL guns Twelve 6 Pdr Nordenfelt and Ten 3 Pdr Hotchkiss QF guns Seven Nordenfelt Machine guns One 7 Pdr and One 9 Pdr RML guns Eighteen 14" Whitehead torpedos Torpedo tubes Five viz Two each side and one at bow HP of Engines Forced Draught 9500 Nat 8, 300 Speed at full power Knots 16
HMS Camperdown
Length extreme 350' 0" Length between Perpendiculars 330' 0" Breadth extreme 68' 6" Draught of water for'd 26' 3" Aft 27' 3" Displacement tons 10, 000 Coal carried tons 900 Complement of Officers and Men 515
Scale 1/6in equals 1ft
Scale: 1:192. Half block model of HMS Camperdown (1885), a barbette ship made entirely from wood. The hull is painted a pink-red with the upperworks and bulwarks painted black, both of which are divided by a thin white line along the waterline. The lower hull is fitted with a rudder and a prop shaft at the stern, whilst the bow is fitted with a ram reinforced by a horizontal stringer. The main deck is finished in a light brown colour on which is mounted a central citadel painted white with a barbette on either side on the bow and stern, both of which are painted black. The upper portion of the hull is complete with a number of circular portholes, two apertures amidships, a pair of hawsepipes at the bow painted red internally and a pair of small guns mounted in turrets at the stern. The upper deck of the citadel is complete with a pair of funnels painted a light yellow colour, a single stump mast painted a pink-red and a forward and aft bridge painted white with light brown decking. The whole model is mounted on a wooden backboard which has been overlayed with either paper or card, painted a yellow-brown colour surrounded by a moulded edge painted black.
CA: BAC.
caption: Half hull model - HMS Camperdown (1885) | 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 Camperdown 1885 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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