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Description: | Scale: 1:48. Design half block model of the port side of the turret ship HMS Sans Pareil (1887), made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted pink-brown below the waterline and black above. Hull fittings include a reinforced ram bow, five rectangular gunports aft, aft gun placement, rudder and port propeller shaft casing. Other details include long foredeck with wide diameter gun turret, painted black; raised main deck with superstructure; bridge with entry port and windows; single stump funnel painted ochre; gun on a circular bed at the stern. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame with bevelled edge.
CA: BAB.
caption: Sans Pareil 1887 - 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 blocks Sans Pareil 1887 models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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