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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A contemporary half block model of Bordelais (1799), a French 24 gun sixth rate sloop. The hull is carved from a solid block of wood (?) and is painted a metallic bronze colour with black topsides to the level of the gunwale capping. It has a curved sheer with the bulwarks painted a creamy white colour with a black capping, and pieced with 12 gunports. The bow is complete with headrails just aft of the figurehead (missing), a cathead and a stump bowsprit above. The stern gallery is flat and at an angle, above a sternpost fitted with a rudder. The whole model is mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard which is painted a creamy white colour surrounded by a stained moulded edging on which is inscribed "116".
CA: AAB.
caption: Bordelais (1799) - broadside | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Bordelais 1799 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 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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