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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A contemporary half block model of the 4-gun wooden screw-sloop ?Amazon? (1865). The solid hull is painted with black topsides and coppered lower hull, the whole of which is mounted on its original wooden backboard.
The ?Amazon? was one of a class of six wooden-hulled sloops, which were designed and built during a time when the larger warships were being constructed of iron. The navy still thought it an economical proposition to produce these smaller cruising vessels in composite construction, i.e. wooden planking on iron frames. She was built at Pembroke Dockyard and measured 187 feet in length by 36 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 1597. The ?Amazon? had a very short career as she sunk as a result of a collision with the collier ?Osprey?, which also sank, just off of Start Point in the Channel in 1865.
CA: AAB. Referenced in Anderson's catalogue (1952) as coming from the Royal Naval Museum. (See Royal Naval Catalogue, pg 32)
The Amazon was one of a class of six wooden-hulled sloops, which were designed and built during a time when the larger warships were being constructed of iron. The navy still thought it an economical proposition to produce these smaller cruising vessels in composite construction, i.e. wooden planking on iron frames. She was built at Pembroke Dockyard and measured 187 feet in length by 36 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 1597. The Amazon had a very short career as she sunk as a result of a collision with the collier Osprey, which also sank, just off of Start Point in the Channel in 1865.
caption: 'Amazon' - half block
caption: Amazon 1865 - 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 full hull ship models Amazon 1865 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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