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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A shipbuilder's model of the Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes (1908). The hull has been painted a dark salmon pink below the waterline, with a thin grey band above and white upper works. The wooden planking on deck has also been depicted. The bow has an elaborately carved, painted and gilded crest and the name "Minas Geraes" appears on the port and starboard stern quarters. There is also a prominent stern gallery. Two pairs of companionways have been rigged on the port and starboard sides. The torpedo nets have been depicted in their closed positions. The superstructure, gun turrets and ship's boats have been painted white. The model is intricately detailed and many of the fittings have been either gold or silver plated, or painted in a gun metal. There are a total of six gun turrets each with two guns, two turrets fore and aft, and two amidships. There are 10 ship's boats including steam pinnaces. There are also two boats on davits at the stern. There are two funnels painted sand yellow with black tops, and between them sits the nest of boats and the single mast. There are a number of signaling lamps, including two in the crows nest. The model shows some unusual features on the decks including chicken coops, two spare propellers blades, and a painting punt. The model is mounted on six modern cylindrical supports and displayed in a bespoke mahogany display case.
CA: AAA.
This model was one of a pair ordered by the Brazilian Ministry of Marine and built by Sir W G Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd, Elswick. Measuring 500 feet in length by 83 feet in the beam and displacing 19,281 tons, the ?Minas Geraes? was powered by two triple-expansion steam engines of 23,000 initial horsepower producing a service speed of 21 knots. The armament consisted of twelve 12-inch guns, twenty-two 4.7-inch guns and eight 3-pounders.
This ship and its sister the ?Sao Paulo? were rated as armoured ships and were an enlarged version of the British ?Dreadnought? with additional pair of 12-inch guns. Both ships were offered to the Royal Navy for service with the Grand Fleet in 1917 but it was turned down. The ?Minas Geraes? was extensively refitted and eventually sold for scrap in the 1950s. 'MInas Geraes' - more usually 'Gerais' today - is the fourth largest province of Brazil: it literally means 'general mines'.
caption: Minas Geraes - starboard broadside
caption: Minas Geraes - starboard broadside deck view
caption: Minas Geraes - bow three quarter view
caption: Minas Geraes - stern quarter view
caption: Minas Geraes - quarter stern deck detail
caption: Minas Geraes - stern deck and gun detail
caption: Minas Geraes - mast and funnel detail
caption: Minas Geraes - forward boat deck detail
caption: Minas Geraes - boat deck detail aft view
caption: Minas Geraes - mast lockout detail
caption: Minas Geraes - bridge and forward funnel detail
caption: Minas Geraes - fore deck and guns detail
caption: Minas Geraes - funnel, bridge and guns detail
caption: Minas Geraes - funnel, bridge and guns detail raised view
caption: Minas Geraes - fore deck anchor handling detail
caption: Minas Geraes - bow crest detail foreward
caption: Minas Geraes - bow crest detail side view
caption: Minas Geraes - field gun detail aft
caption: Minas Geraes - field gun detail foreward
caption: Minas Geraes - foreward companion way starboard
caption: Minas Geraes - bridge detail
caption: Minas Geraes - stern deck raised looking foreward
caption: Minas Geraes - bow dead ahead looking aft
caption: Ship Model of the Minas Gerais - view of bridge and forward guns
caption: Ship Model of the Minas Gerais - model in photographic studio
caption: Ship Model of the Minas Gerais - Bow view
caption: Ship Model of the Minas Gerais - bow to stern view
caption: Ship Model of the Minas Gerais
caption: Ship Model of the Minas Gerais - detail of funnel area
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caption: Ship Model of the Minas Gerais - detail of forward guns | 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 Treasures of the National Maritime Museum blocks The National Maritime Museum - The Collections Minas Geraes 1908 models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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