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Description: | Scale: Unknown. Model of a single frame of a wooden sailing vessel made with three timbers instead of two, as proposed by Sir Robert Seppings in 1820. The model is made entirely of wood and stained and varnished a uniform dark brown colour. The thickness of the frame tapers with the thicker part at the keel end of the frame. At this end, the three exposed timber ends each have dowels. The three timbers have been made in sections. A paper label marked "11" has been applied to the inner face of the frame, but is now partly missing.
CA: AAB.Cited as coming from the Admiralty, Somerset House according to Callender's Ledger (NMM 22/1).On label? "This is a plan for connecting beams to ship's side with iron knees, thick water way and binding strake, also four lug bolts and other fastenings".
caption: Timber frame | 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 Committee of Master Shipwrights models (representations) Naval Models Catalogue sectional models South Kensington Museum | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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