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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A model of a yacht's hull made entirely in wood and painted light blue. The hull is made of a number of wood layers and the exterior is finely carved, the interior unfinished. The aft end of the hull has been filled with body filler and roughly painted in cream, and two shades of brown. There is a pronounced keel with two brass drop keels, one larger than the other, both with pronounced rivets along their front edges. A rectangular piece of wood is screwed to the floor of the hull and above it, on the starboard side is an angled strip of aluminium with numbers marked in two shades of marker pen '0' to '20'. On starboard bow "Model No.090 CN" and on starboard broadside "Gridlines 1.0 Feet Apart Measured on Girth".
CA: ABC.
caption: Yacht - Starboard broadside
caption: Yacht - Starboard three quarter bow
caption: Yacht - Starboard 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 Camper & Nicholsons Ltd | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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