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Description: | Scale: 1:72. A straight-sided, double-ended pontoon whose appearance is reminiscent of a modern skip. It looks more like an industrial, rather than a maritime, relic. The copper sheets comprising the hull?s sides and bottom have been riveted to a grid-like metal frame which would have given the vessel great structural rigidity. The top edge right around all four sides of the pontoon are wood, and there are securing rings at each corner. It is one of several models of pontoons the NMM acquired from the Museum of Artillery in the Rotunda, Woolwich, in 1957 (see the model of an Austrian pontoon, SLR2706).
CA: BAA.
caption: Pontoon - broadside
caption: Pontoon - three 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 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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