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Description: | Scale: 1:130. This Swedish model has been made to an unusual scale by a commercial modelmaking company. 'John E Hyde' (1951) was an average-size oil tanker of the period. She was built in the conventional method of the period using longitudinal framing, by A/B G�taverken, Gothenburg, Sweden. The Museum also has a model of the same vessel (SLR0084) that depicts the ship following her later conversion to a bulk carrier. The Japanese shipyard, Kure Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, lengthened and widened the ?John E Hyde's? hull and strengthened the holds to take bulk cargoes.
Looking at the two models side by side, they appear to represent completely dissimilar ships, especially as they have been made to different scales.
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This Swedish model has been made to an unusual scale by a commercial modelmaking company. John E Hyde (1951) was an average-size oil tanker of the period. She was built in the conventional method of the period using longitudinal framing, by A/B G�taverken, Gothenburg, Sweden. The NMM also has a model of the same vessel (SLR0084) that depicts the ship following her later conversion to a bulk carrier. The Japanese shipyard, Kure Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, lengthened and widened the John E Hyde's hull and strengthened the holds to take bulk cargoes.
Looking at the two models side by side, they appear to represent completely dissimilar ships, especially as they have been made to different scales. The main visual difference is that the later conversion (SLR0084) has a series of grey cargo hatch covers on deck. Whereas SLR1645 shows the vessel as an oil tanker with accommodation at bow stern.
caption: John E. Hyde (1951) - starboard broadside
caption: John E. Hyde (1951) - port three quarter view
caption: John E. Hyde (1951) - starboard quarter view | 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 John E Hyde 1951 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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