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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A full hull model of a floating battery gunboat (circa 1850) made entirely in wood with metal fittings and painted. The hull gives the appearance of being planked carvel fashion and is painted or stained a dark brown finish. The hull has a large figurehead in the form of a horse?s head, a single row of widely-spaced minute portholes and a single four-bladed propeller. Other features include a single deck superstructure with rounded ends, placed amidships, and accommodating a number of gunports that completely encircle it, some of which contain guns; roof of the superstructure accommodating several unidentified fittings; and provision at the stern for a rudder. The model is mounted on a pair of crutches and displayed on an octagonal wooden baseboard.
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caption: Floating battery gunboat - port 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 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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