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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A full hull model of the polar exploration and research vessel RRS Discovery (1901) made entirely in wood with metal, organic and synthetic material fittings and painted in realistic colours. The depicted vessel is a three-masted barque rigged steam ship. The hull is painted black overall with white-painted strakes. Fittings include bowsprit, forecastle with what appear to be white-painted guardrails, a number of ship?s boats with white-painted hulls, a single cream-painted funnel and a companion way rigged to the starboard broadside hull. The model is mounted on a pair of turned white metal pillar supports and a pair of stabilizers.
CA: AAA.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Discovery 1901 full hull ship models | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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