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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of the first-rate turret ship HMS ‘Dreadnought’ (1866). It is complete with its original decorated wooden base and is fully rigged with tripod masts and spars. This model illustrates one of a series of eight men of war as proposed by Vice-Admiral E. P. Halsted, which carried guns and turrets as designed by Captain Cowper Coles. Measuring 455 feet in length by 70 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 10,764 (builder’s old measurement), this was to be the largest of Halsted’s designs carrying seven turrets mounting pairs of 9-inch guns.
CA: AAA. | Publisher: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/page/7d7ded6fb50d6031e2884961a200be58.html | Subjects: | Dreadnought 1866 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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