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Description: | MEVAGISSEY, CORNWALL "Half killick" in which rods are replace by rope-strops, c.1880. (After drawing by Howard Dunn)
Scale: Unknown. A model of a half killick from Mevagissey, Cornwall consisting of a slightly curved and rectangular wooden arm finishing with square and angled ends on which is set parallel to the arm, a flat oval shaped piece of slate, notched at top and bottom. Two rope strops enclosing the arm and the stone have replaced wooden rods and are lashed together at the top of the stone all the way up the shank to just below a large rope eye.
Possibly made by Robert Morton Nance.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce.
caption: Killick | 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 killicks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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