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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A half block model of the starboard side of the passenger/cargo ship Arcwear (1934), made entirely in wood and painted off-white. The depicted vessel is a three-island configuration with a rectangular-shaped rudder and provision for a single propeller. The model is displayed on a rectangular mahogany backboard. Hand rendered on top left-hand corner of backboard ?Length B.P. 360'-0" Beam Extreme 57'-6" Depth Moulded 26'-9" ?. Hand rendered on top centre of backboard ?SS "Archwear" Built by Short Brothers, Limited, Sunderland?. Hand rendered on top right-hand corner of backboard ?Isherwood "Arcform? Design?.
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caption: Arcwear 1934 - broadside | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Arcwear 1934 Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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