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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A model of the bow of a warship with a pivoting gun made entirely of wood and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted off-white below the waterline, black above, the inboard bulwarks are cream and the forecastle is stained a dark brown colour. Four large rectangular gunports are shown, their inner faces painted cream. The slide carriage rotates on a metal pin located in the centre of the deck. The muzzle loading gun is turned from wood, painted black and mounted on a conventional carriage that slides back and forth on the slide carriage. There are five additional pivoting points set into the deck.
CA: BAB. Cited as coming from the Admiralty, Somerset House according to Callender's Ledger (NMM 22/1).
caption: Pivot gun | 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 Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue Mr Fincham 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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