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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of the iron-hulled floating battery ?HMS Thunderbolt? (1856), mounted in its original glazed wooden display case. It is complete with stump masts and bowsprit and a number of deck fittings such as hatches, capstans for handling the anchors when moored for firing, a wheel and a telescopic funnel. It has 15 smooth-bore muzzle-loading guns mounted on either side of the hull, of which only one side would be rigged for firing during a bombardment of another vessel or targets ashore.
The ?Thunderbolt? measured 186 feet in length by 48 feet in the beam, with a tonnage of 1954 and was built by Samuda Brothers, Millwall, London. She was initially built to defend the mouth of the Thames but in 1873 was used as a floating pier head at Chatham. In 1916, she was renamed ?Daedalus? and in 1948, was rammed and sunk by a tug. She was eventually raised and broken a year later.
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The Thunderbolt measured 186 feet in length by 48 feet in the beam, with a tonnage of 1954 and was built by Samuda Brothers, Millwall, London. She was initially built to defend the mouth of the Thames but in 1873 was used as a floating pier head at Chatham. In 1916, she was renamed Daedalus and in 1948, was rammed and sunk by a tug. She was eventually raised and broken a year later.
caption: HMS ?Thunderbolt? (1856) - starboard broadside
caption: HMS ?Thunderbolt? (1856) - port three quarter view
caption: HMS ?Thunderbolt? (1856) - starboard quarter view | 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 full hull ship models Thunderbolt 1856 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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