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Description: | Scale: 1:192. Waterline model of the destroyer 'Cygnet' (1931). The model is decked, equipped and rigged. ?H83? is painted on the port and starboard bows and on the stern. The vessel is depicted as built with four 4.7-inch guns and eight 21-inch torpedo tubes. The model is displayed on a shared scenic base alongside the dreadnought battleship HMS 'Queen Elizabeth' (SLR1414), an Admiralty steam drifter and an Admiral?s barge, portraying a scene from the mid-1930s.
?Cygnet? was sold to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1937 and renamed ?St Laurent?. It served throughout the Second World War.
CA: AAB.
caption: 'Cygnet', port stern quarter, with the stern of 'Queen Elizabeth'
caption: HMS 'Queen Elizabeth' and 'Cygnet', both starboard stern quarter
caption: 'Queen Elizabeth' and 'Cygnet', both port broadside
caption: 'Cygnet', starboard broadside, with stern of 'Queen Elizabeth'
caption: 'Queen Elizabeth', port broadside, with 'Cygnet' | 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 Cygnet 1931 J. G. Ward-Harris waterline models models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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