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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the port side of the turret ship HMS Monarch (1868), made entirely in wood and painted light pink-brown below the waterline, a narrow white stripe above and black above the waterline with a second white stripe along the gunwale. Hull details include a ram bow, rows of square portholes, propeller and rudder. Other fittings include stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast and mizzen mast, a single lozenge-shaped funnel painted off-white with an ochre top, and two turrets, each with provision for two guns, fore and aft the funnel. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame with bevelled edge. On backboard ?Monarch?.
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caption: Monarch 1868 - 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 Monarch 1868 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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