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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A block design model of a third-rate, 60-gun, two-decker ship of the line (circa 1730).
Eleven ships were made to the specifications of the 1719 Establishment, which this model represents. These vessels were 144 feet in length, 30 feet in the beam, and weighed 952 tons burden. They carried 400 men. They were armed with twenty-four 24-pound guns on their gun decks, twenty-six 9-pounders on their upper decks, eight 6-pounders on their quarterdecks and two 6-pounders on their forecastles.
CA: BAB. Referenced in the Royal Naval Museum Catalogue (1913), pg 25, Edinburgh Room, No 6 Case, No 4. Referred to as a Royal Naval Museum model in Anderson's catalogue (1952).
Eleven ships were made to the specifications of the 1719 Establishment, which this model represents. These vessels were 144 feet in length, 30 feet in the beam, and weighed 952 tons burden. They carried 400 men. They were armed with twenty-four 24-pound guns on their gun decks, twenty-six 9-pounders on their upper decks, eight 6-pounders on their quarterdecks and two 6-pounders on their forecastles.
caption: Ship of 60-guns - port broadside
caption: Ship of 60-guns - port three quarter view
caption: Ship of 60-guns - starboard quarter 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 Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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