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Description: | Scale: 1:24. A model of the trawler Providence (1920) made mostly from wood but with other materials, and painted in realistic colours. The vessel is depicted fully equipped and rigged, with the sails set. The hull appears to be carved from a block of wood and is heavy and solid. It is painted almost entirely in gloss black apart from a long section painted matt brick red on the port and starboard three quarters, and a fine white line at deck level which runs the entire length of the hull. On port and starboard bows 'R225'. The hull shape is wide and has a pronounced keel and stempost. The top of the gunwales is painted light brown as is most of the long bowsprit. The top and bottom of the bowsprit is pale blue, together with the mount for it. The deck is painted mid-brown and scored to simulate planking. The deck is equipped with a windlass rigged to an anchor stowed over the port bow, a stove pipe, a painted silver capstan with integral winch, a companionway cover, a cargo hatch painted green with five removable hatch covers, a fishing net stowed on the starboard side, and a tiller for working the black painted rudder. The single mast with a tall topmast is positioned forward and finished in varnished wood with light blue details, and has a lighter wood gaff boom. The sails are a uniform brick red colour and are realistically manufactured as they have been stitched together, have cringles and six mast hoops on the mainsail, and are in single blocks. On mainsail 'R.225'. The transom stern has a rectangular slot to accommodate the tiller. On stern 'Providence Ramsgate'.
CA: ABB.
The bawley was an inshore craft mostly employed in the shallow waters of the Thames Estuary fishing for shrimps, white bait, sprats and whelks. Large fleets of these vessels operated from Harwich, Leigh, Erith, Gravesend and the Medway ports. Earlier vessels of this type were clinker built and fitted with fish wells for the carriage of live fish to the market. During the latter half of the 19th century, the wells were replaced by boilers, at first made of brick, and later of copper, in which the fish were boiled as soon as they were caught and so prepared for instant marketing. The later type of bawley, similar to the Providence, were slightly larger than the earlier vessels and were generally carvel built.
The bawleys were generally gaff cutters and the mainsail sheet was loose footed with the sheet led to a horse rail as shown on this model; a boom was never rigged as it interfered with the fishing operations on deck. The almost perpendicular cut of the mainsail and the general rig of the bawley shows more clearly than any other type of boat around the coast, certain characteristics of the rig carried to England in 1660 by Charles II?s Dutch yacht ?Mary?.
caption: 'Providence' (1920) - port broadside
caption: 'Providence' (1920) - bow three quarter
caption: 'Providence' (1920) - stern quarter
caption: 'Providence', starboard broadside
caption: 'Providence', port stern quarter | 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 full hull ship models Providence 1920 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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