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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A model depicting the elliptical stern of HMS Vernon (1832) made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The port side of the stern shows the framing and the starboard side, the vessel as completed. The hull is brick red below the waterline on the starboard side, black above and the gallery and stern quarter decoration is highlighted in ochre. Six gunports are depicted, two on the gundeck, the remainder on the poop. All the depicted windows have nine lights, two windows are open with fine wire glazing. Oakleaf decoration is painted above the windows and the righthand half of a ship's name and inscription reads 'BELLO' and 'PER VIRET'. The poop deck, painted light brown, is devoid of detail. The full frames are painted on the port side, the voids of the filling frames are painted a dark brown.
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caption: Vernon (1832) - stern
caption: Vernon (1832) - stern framing | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Vernon (1832) William Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue Symonds models (representations) Naval Models Catalogue sectional models South Kensington Museum | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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