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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the starboard side of the composite screw sloop HMS Albatross made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted brick red below the waterline and black above. There is a well for the propeller which is either missing or was not originally fitted. Fittings include stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast, and mizzen masts. The model is displayed on a backboard painted white with a bevelled edge. On plaque attached upper part of backboard ? "Albatross". Composite sloop launched 1873.?. On left-hand side of backboard ?62.?.
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caption: HMS Albatross 1873 - 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 Albatross 1873 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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