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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A half block model of the starboard side of a coastguard cruiser (circa 1870) made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted brick red below the waterline and black above. Fittings include a decorated bow and stern; a single strake running the entire length of the hull; stump bowsprit, foremast , mainmast and mizzen mast; single stump funnel, painted black; and provision for a single propeller. The model is displayed on a rectangular wooden backboard, painted light blue-grey. Hand rendered on top centre of backboard ?Coast Guard Cruiser.?. Hand-rendered on bottom centre of backboard ?Thames Iron Works Building Engineering, & Dry Dock Company?. On reverse of backboard ?To E.T. Adams Esq, Cloak Room, Victoria Station, SEC.C RLY. To Be Called For "21.7.13. From: The Thames Ironworks, Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Limited. Canning Town, London E.?.
CA: AAB. Main mast missing.
caption: Coast guard cruiser - broadside | 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 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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