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Description: | Scale: 1:24. Full hull model of the Royal yacht Britannia (1893) made in wood with metal fittings. The hull is copper plated with individual plates below the waterline with the upperworks painted gloss black with a narrow gold strip running the entire length of the hull just below the gunwale. The individually planked, mast, spars and rigging blocks are finished in a natural wood and are devoid of stain and varnish. There are six skylights and companionways or varying sizes, all of which are stained and vanished . There is a single bowsprit fixed inboard between a pair of bitts, and a single mast which is fitted with a topmast, boom and gaff. There are a number of metal fittings on deck as the housing for the bowsprit(bitts), a capstan, and the rudder head rigged with the tiller. The model is displayed on five wooden keel blocks and supported by six wooden shores wedged at either end around the turn of the bilge, all of which are fixed to a rectangular wooden baseboard which painted black. There is a brass plaque inscribed: 'HMY Britannia 1893 Designed by G.L. Watson model made by John Phillips'.
CA: AAA. See "Royal Yachts" by AP McGowan and "The King's Britannia" by John Irving.
, a cutter rigged yacht. The model is rigged, with the name ?Britannia? on the stern. On the baseboard is a plaque inscribed, ??. The model shows the ?Britannia? as built and cutter rigged. This gaff rig allowed a huge spread of 10,327 square feet of canvas. Visible in the model is the original tiller, which was replaced by a wheel around 1920. The model is also coppered below the waterline, a preventative measure used against weed growth and molluscs on full size vessels.
?Britannia? was ordered in 1892 by the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, and after his death owned by George V. Built on the Clyde, of wood on steel frames, the vessel was launched in 1893 and enjoyed success in its early racing years. In 1897, the Prince sold it, only to buy it back four years later and fit it out for cruising only. In 1921, the new owner, George V, refitted it out for racing, and for the first few seasons was able to replicate its earlier successes. However, as the years progressed ?Britannia? became increasingly unable to hold its own against the more modern rigged J-class yachts. Although fitted out with a Bermudan rig in 1931, it was still unable to match the newer yachts and was withdrawn from racing in 1935. After George V?s death in 1936, it was towed out into the English Channel and sunk in deep water off the Isle of Wight, in accordance with his dying wishes.
The 'Britannia' is depicted off Cowes in 1923 in an oil painting in the NMM Collection by the artist Charles Pears, see BHC2493.
caption: 'Britannia', starboard broadside
caption: 'Britannia', port � bow
caption: 'Britannia', starboard stern quarter deck detail | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Britannia 1893 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 Yachting | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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