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Description: | Scale 1:48. A contemporary half block model of the Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert III (1899). The hull is built in 'bread and butter' fashion and is painted bronze/brown colour below the waterline with black topsides above. It is complete with a clipper-shaped bow decorated with a figurehead of a shield and supported by trailboards and a bilge keel amidships. The are two rows of portholes, the lower deck are circular with the upper deck square with carved and gilded ropework decoration above and below. There is a rounded counter stern below which is a single rounded rudder(modern replacement) mounted to an angled skeg. On deck is a large deckhouse with three skylights and two stump masts, a pair of truncated funnels with ventilator cowlings painted a light yellow, a bridge superstructure and a foredeck complete with an anchor davit. The whole model is mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard painted a creamy white and surrounded with a stained and varnished wooden edge.
CA: BAB.
This is the third yacht to be named Victoria and Albert and was fitted with steam engines. Built at Pembroke Dock and launched in 1899, it measured 380 feet in length by 40 feet in the beam with a tonnage of 4,700. The yacht was used regularly up until the Second World War when it was laid up and used as an accommodation ship in Portsmouth harbour. The Victoria and Albert (III) was finally sold in 1954 for breaking at Faslane, Scotland.
caption: Royal Yacht V&A III 1899 - broadside
caption: Royal Yacht V&A III 1899 - figurehead
caption: Royal Yacht V&A III 1899 - stern detail
caption: 'Victoria & Albert', starboard broadside | 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 blocks Victoria and Albert (1899) models (representations) Yachting | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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