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Description: | Scale: 1:12. A contemporary full hull model of a Greathead lifeboat, circa 1810, built plank on frame. The hull is double-ended with a distinct rockered keel and curved sheer and painted white externally and red internally to the level if the gunwale capping. It is fitted with heavy sawn timbers four pairs of which project above the gunwale as timbers heads for securing ropes and towing warps. There are five thwarts connected by a central gangplank, painted black, together with six pairs of thole pins mounted on the gunwale for rowing double-banked oars.
For additional buoyancy, large cork blocks are fitted around the gunwale and underneath the side benches. There are a six wooden floors which are painted black and can be removed to show the construction in and around the keel area. Being double-ended, it can be rowed in either direction and was pulled by up to ten oars. The whole model is mounted on a pair of carved wooden crutches. There is a paper label attached to the stemhead with the number "6" inscribed on it.
CA: BBB.
The Navy Board examined Greathead?s proposals for the carrying of his lifeboats on board ships and the establishment of shore based lifeboats around the coast. However, with his boats costing �180.00 each as opposed to a jollyboat at �11.00, it was vetoed on the grounds of economics. The slightly more curved shape of the hull and the heavier bilge keels suggest a later date of the original design.
caption: Shields lifeboat - broadside
caption: Shields lifeboat - elevated broadside
caption: Shields lifeboat - three quarter view
caption: Full hull model, shields lifeboat, broadside | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Henry Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Northumberland Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue full hull ship models Greathead Duke of Naval Models Catalogue South Kensington Museum | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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