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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A waterline model of a cargo vessel. The hull is painted black with pink at the waterline and white bulwarks. The decks are painted a uniform pale buff with mid-grey cargo hatch covers. The foredeck has a single small hatch served by a pair of derricks. The forward cargo deck has two hatches with a heavy-lift derrick between them and a pair of derricks aft that are fixed to the main superstructure. The main superstructure is placed forward, painted white, several decks tall and has a bridge house, or pilot house, atop flanked by bridge wings. A pair of boats are stored below them. There are two narrow boats decks amidships, each with a pair of boats stowed on them, and between the foremost pair is a single tall funnel painted French blue with a black top. There are four black-painted ventilators between the rearmost pair of boats. The aft cargo deck has four hatches, inline, the middle two being larger than the others. They are served by a heavy-lift derrick and two pairs of derricks. There is a raised boat deck at the stern with a nest of four lifeboats. On base of model "363".
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | waterline models models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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