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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the port side of the armoured frigates HMS Nelson (1876) and HMS Northampton (1876), made entirely in wood and painted duck-egg green below the waterline, a narrow white stripe above and black above the waterline. Hull details include a reinforced ram bow; two large inset gun mountings fore and aft; four rectangular gunports amidships; rudder; and port propeller shaft casing. Other fittings include stump bowsprit, and two funnels, painted black. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame. On plaque attached to right-hand side of backboard ?Nelson & Northampton?.
CA: AAB.
caption: HMS Nelson and Northamption - broadside | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Northhamton 1876 Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Nelson 1876 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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