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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A contemporary block design of the third rate ?Essex? (1760), a 64-gun, two-decker ship of the line. The number ?88? is on the base. On the side of the hull are painted the chain plates and the gun ports. The figurehead is painted onto the side and front of a solid block.
Built by Stanton & Co., the ?Essex? measured 158 feet in length by 45 feet in the beam, displacing 1379 tons. Between 1791?98 it served as a receiving ship at Portsmouth. Receiving ships were old warships that were permanently moored in a naval port to accommodate new recruits to the navy, or men brought in through impressment. It was sold off in 1799.
CA: BAC. Is it Royal Naval Museum (1913) Catalogue pg 24, Edinburgh Room, No 4 Case, No 1?
Built by Stanton/Staunton & Co., the ?Essex? measured 158 feet in length by 45 feet in the beam, displacing 1379 tons. Between 1791?98 it served as a receiving ship at Portsmouth. Receiving ships were old warships that were permanently moored in a naval port to accommodate new recruits to the navy, or men brought in through impressment. It was sold off in 1799.
caption: 'Essex' (1760) - port broadside
caption: 'Essex' (1760) - port three quarter view
caption: 'Essex' (1760) - 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 blocks Essex (1760) models (representations) South Kensington Museum Naval Models Catalogue | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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