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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the port side of the gunboat HMS Snake (1871), made entirely in wood and painted dark brown below the waterline, a narrow white stripe above and black above the waterline. Hull details include a rudder and port side propeller shaft casing. The tall bulwark accommodates three gunports and divides the forecastle from the rest of the vessel?s deck. Other fittings include a single, tall, swept back funnel, painted black. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame with bevelled edge. On plaque applied to top left-hand corner of backboard ?Snake?.
CA: AAB.
caption: Snake 1871 - 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 Snake 1871 James Caird blocks models (representations) Mercury Naval College (Mercury Collection) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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