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Description: | Scale:Unknown. A half block design model of the 40 rater racing yacht Isolde (1895). The hull is made from horizontal wooden planks constructed in bread and butter fashion and is painted a metallic copper colour below the waterline with white topsides above to the level of the deck. The convex-shaped bow is fitted with a stump bowsprit whilst the long overhanging counter stern finishes to a small angled transom. There is a single stump mast mounted on deck indicating a cutter rig. The whole model is mounted on a wooden varnished/polished rectangular backboard with moulded edges to which is fixed a plaque.
CA: BAC. Number "532" on backboard. Plaques inscribed ""Isolde"40 Rating Cutter Designd by Peter Donaldson Esqr for William Fife Jun'r ", "Record - 1895 54 starts 31 first prizes 6 seconds" and "Record - 1896 45 starts 26 first prizes 7 seconds"
caption: Isolde
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich William Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum blocks Isolde 1895 Fife models (representations) Junior | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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