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Description: | Scale: 1:32. A contemporary(?) full hull model of a French(?) 40 gun frigate (1797?). The hull is built plank on frame and roughly painted a red-lead colour below the lower(?) gundeck with the topsides rubbed back to bare wood. Internally, the model is partially decked with a number of loose fitting such as deck beams and knees, a keelson all of which are secured by a mixture of wooden treenails and metal fastenings. At the gundeck level, it looks as if the hull divides into two longitudinally with the two sections held together by metal spring clips(now corroded). Very little remains of the stern galleries with a small section of the taffrail carving and counter pieces loose in a bag.
CA: AAA. Was believed to have been on loan to the Garrison Museum, Gibraltar but was subsequently discovered (Jun 1978) that the model had been at Woolwich Garrison for five years.
caption: unavailable
caption: Frigate - Starboard broadside
caption: Frigate - Bow three quarter
caption: Frigate - Stern quarter
caption: Frigate - Internal view | 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 full hull ship models | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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