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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull block model of a 70-gun (circa 1706) two-decker third-rate ship of the line. It is mounted on its original baseboard sitting on two keel blocks bow and stern and two brass rods amidships. The model is painted, with the main and upper wales, the bulwarks screens all picked out in black. The planking along the side at the level of the gun decks is yellow ochre, which is then punctuated by the dark reddish brown of the gunports. As is typical of this style of model, the decoration is virtually two-dimensional with minor detail in the stern and quarter galleries.
The name ?Ramillies? appears on the stern, but that name was borne from 1706?60 by 90-gun three-deckers. Although later ships called ?Ramillies? were 74-gun two-deckers, they were of very different dimensions to those indicated by the model, which corresponds exactly with the Establishments of 1706 for 70-gun ships.
CA: BAB. Suggested reference in the Royal Naval Museum Catalogue (1913), pg 24, Edinburgh Room, No 2 Case, No 3. Reference taken from Anderson's catalogue (1952).
The name ?Ramillies? appears on the stern, but that name was borne from 1706?60 by 90-gun three-deckers. Although later ships called ?Ramillies? were 74-gun two-deckers, they were of very different dimensions to those indicated by the model, which corresponds exactly with the Establishments of 1706 for 70-gun ships.
caption: 'Ramillies', port broadside
caption: 'Ramillies', port 3/4 bow
caption: 'Ramillies', starboard stern quarter | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Ramillies 1706 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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