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Description: | Armament Four 13.5in BL Guns Six 4.7in QF Guns Eight 6 pdr. & Twelve 3 pdr QF guns Six Nordenfelts One 9 pdr. & One 7 pdr. RML guns Twenty-four 14in. Whitehead Torpedos. Torpedo Tubes Two Submerged and Four abovewater HP of Engines Forced Draught 12000 Nat: 7500 Speed at Full Power Knots 17
HMS Trafalgar Scale 1/16in. equals 1 foot
Length Extreme ft in 365-0 Length between Perpendiculars 345-0 Breadth Extreme 73-0 Draught of Water Ford. 27-0" Aft 28-0" Displacement tons 12000 Coal carried tons 900 Complement of Officers and men 577
Scale: 1:192. Half block model of HMS Trafalgar (1887), a turret ship made entirely from wood. The hull is painted a pink-red with the upperworks and bulwarks painted black, both of which are divided by a thin white line along the waterline. The lower hull is fitted with a rudder and a prop shaft at the stern, whilst the bow is fitted with a ram reinforced by a horizontal stringer. The upper portion of the hull is complete with a number of circular portholes, a pair of hawsepipes at the bow painted red internally and a single guns mounted in a cylindrical turret at the stern. Bridging the upper and lower portion of the hull are a series of horizontal and vertical red lines indicating the areas of armour plating together with a series of numbers painted in white indicating the thicknesses of the armour plating in inches. The main deck is finished in a light brown colour on which is mounted a central citadel painted white with a pair of circular turrets mounted with two guns either side of the citadel. The upper deck of the citadel is complete with a single funnel (one of a pair mounted athwartships) painted a light yellow colour, a single stump mast painted a pink-red and a forward bridge painted white with light brown decking. The whole model is mounted on a wooden backboard which has been overlayed with either paper or card, painted a yellow-brown colour surrounded by a moulded edge painted black.
CA: AAB.
caption: Half hull model - HMS Trafalgar (1887) | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Trafalgar 1887 Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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