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Description: | Scale: 1:48. Canon on base from a contemporary full hull model of a sixth-rate sloop (circa 1730) built in the Geogian style. The model is decked. The initials ?GR? appear on the stern.
CA: BBB.
Twenty ships were made in the style of the 1719 Establishment. They were 106 feet long with a beam of 30 feet. They weighed 428 tons burden and had a complement of 140 men. They carried twenty 6-pound guns. Around 1730 two ships (the ?Sheerness? and the ?Dolphin?) were built to a modified design, being 2� feet longer than their predecessors. This was an intermediate stage in the development of the 1773 Establishment 20-gun ships, which were of a similar size but with a heavier burden.
Records show that model has a glass case which makes it suitable for lending out. The whereabouts of this case is unknown. Baseboard has been replaced.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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