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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A block design model of the ?Litchfield? (1730), a 50-gun small two-decker. The name ?Litchfield? is on the stern and the starboard broadside. The dimensions are those of the Establishment of 1719 to which the ?Litchfield? was built in 1730.
Ships of this type were 134 feet long, 26 feet broad, weighed 755 tons burden, and had a full complement of 300 men. They carried twenty-two 18-pound guns on their gun decks, twenty-two 9-pounders on their upper decks, four 6-pounders on their quarterdecks and two 6-pounders on their forecastles.
The ?Litchfield? was launched at Plymouth in March 1730, and was broken up in 1744.
CA: BAB. Referred to as a Portsmouth Dockyard Museum model (cat. No. 12) in Anderson's catalogue (1952).
Ships of this type were 134 feet long, 26 feet broad, weighed 755 tons burden, and had a full complement of 300 men. They carried twenty-two 18-pound guns on their gun decks, twenty-two 9-pounders on their upper decks, four 6-pounders on their quarterdecks and two 6-pounders on their forecastles.
The ?Litchfield? was launched at Plymouth in March 1730, and was broken up in 1744.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce.
caption: 'Litchfield' (1730) - starboard broadside
caption: 'Litchfield' (1730) - starboard three quarter view
caption: 'Litchfield' (1730) - port 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 Litchfield 1730 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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