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Description: | Scale: 1:96. A model of the general cargo ship ?Cragmoor? (1947) made to a very high standard both in terms of craftsmanship and materials used. Most of the exquisite fittings have been gold-plated to prevent them from tarnishing and the paint finish on the hull, though applied by hand, is flawless. The decks and parts of the superstructure have been executed in a pale-coloured wood, with the hatch cover detailing inscribed in black penwork. A gangway, or accommodation ladder, has been rigged on the starboard side of the model, a common convention of shipbuilders? models of merchant ships of this period. It still retains its original mahogany display case, with ?ivorine? plaques, and display table.
William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, built the actual vessel for Moor Line, and that company?s colours are depicted on the model with a black funnel featuring a white stripe with a large ?R? picked out in blue. The yard also provided ?Cragmoor?s? two-stroke, single-acting, four-cylinder oil engine. Following the downturn in shipbuilding and ship owning in the late 1970s, the model was sold at auction in 1981 and purchased by the NMM.
CA: AAC. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | 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 Cragmoor 1947 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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