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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A contemporary half block model of HMS Rifleman (1846), a first class wood screw sloop gunvessel(gunboat). The hull is carved from a solid block of wood(?) and is painted a metallic copper/bronze colour with black topsides separated by a thin white line along the waterline. There are five gunports cut into the solid bulwarks together with a pair of channels and a single cathead. The clipper-shaped bow is fitted with headrails and trailboard with a decorated scroll figurehead, above which is fitted a stump bowsprit. It has a relatively flat sheer and is fitted with a pair of stump masts and a telescopic black funnel on deck. At the stern, the rounded galleries have raised construction detail with a rudder below fitted to the stern frame(screw not fitted) with gudgeons and pintles. The whole model is fitted to a rectangular wooden backboard painted a creamy white and surrounded by a stained moulded edging on which is inscribed "(10)" under the keel amidships.
CA: BAC. Cited as coming from the Admiralty, Somerset House according to Callender's Ledger (NMM 22/1).
caption: The Rifleman 1846 - 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 Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue Rifleman 1846 blocks models (representations) South Kensington Museum Naval Models Catalogue | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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