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Description: | Scale: 1: 48. A contemporary full hull model of the eighth-rate despatch vessel ?Vedette? (1866). It is complete with its original decorated wooden base with stump tripod masts and a bowsprit fitted on deck. This model illustrates one of a series of eight men-of-war as proposed by Vice-Admiral E. P. Halsted, which carried guns, and turrets as designed by Captain Cowper Coles.
Measuring 332 feet in length by 47 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 5700 displacement, the ?Vedette? was the smallest of Halsted?s proposals. Although it was described as a despatch vessel it was to carry the same 9-inch guns as the larger class, though only two of them in a single turret.
CA: AAA.
caption: Vedette - port broadside
caption: Vedette - starboard braodside(raised)
caption: Vedette - starboard three quarter bow
caption: Vedette - port stern quarter
caption: Vedette - figurehead detail dead ahead
caption: Vedette - figurehead detail port bow | 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 Vedette fl.1866 Halsted full hull ship models E P | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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