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Description: | SET OF TEMPLATES for draughtsmen's use showing types of gun used c.1845
Set of wooden gun templates c1845.
Gun templates for ship draughtsmen's use around 1845. Contained in a box. Drawn at 1:48 scale. The guns covered according to the slightly idiosyncratic key are: 68-pdr 113 cwt 1 qtr 12 lbs, 42-pdr 84 cwt, 10 feet long (Scourge) Fore& Aft, 68-pdr or 10-inch 85 cwt, 10 Inch 84 cwt 1qtr 14lbs, 68 pdr 65 cwt, 8 Inch or 32 of 56 cwt (two templates), 8 Inch 52 cwt and 32 pdr 40 cwt. There is also another template of a gun 32 pdr 25 cwt. The templates are mainly of guns shown on truck carriages in plan view but there are also two elevation patterns for a long and a short gun on slide mountings: 112 cwt 10ft 10" long and 32 pdr 25 cwt.
One of number of naval architectural instruments which, based on information from Fred Walker (ex-NMM), are recorded on 35mm neg strips D1735 and D1736. This is frame 28A on D1735. [PvdM, 8/07]
This object was discovered by the Collections Inventory Project with no numbers or documentation. It needs further Cataloguing and updating when information becomes available.
Acq. slip found in X1986/012 'SNA86-06 (Formal ) december 1986 Gun templates for ship draughtmans use ca. 1845 This is formalising equipment of unnown origin and provenance in SNA collection. Dept. ships, SNA Neg no 28A D 1735 File No 86/06
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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