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Description: | Scale: circa 1:20. Full-hull and fully rigged model of a type of Northern Chinese junk known as an Antung Trader. The hull is long and low with a flat bottom, curving up towards the bow and stern with near vertical sides and is finished in an olive brown colour with a creamy white filler between the planking. Running centrally above the deck is a raised hatch combing with removable wooden hatch boards which starts at the after cabin and finishes in the bow by the foremast and anchor windlass. It has four masts rigged with a two-part foresail, a three-part mainsail with an additional topsail, and two light mizzen sails, all of which are supported by horizontal bamboo battens. The rudder is rectangular.
Other equipment includes spare sails, companion ways, anchors with rope cables, a wooden anchor davit and a small sampan towed astern.
The number "953" is painted on a white rectangular box together with Chinese characters on either side at the bow and stern.
The model has been built from drawings and measurements made by the donor, Lt (later Lt-Cdr) David Watkin Waters RN, in Wei Hai Wei, China, in 1938.
These vessels reached up to 21 metres in length and were crewed by 20 men. See DWW's article on the Antung trader in 'Mariner's Mirror', 1938, on the Pecjhili trade in MM 1939, and Michael Trimming's on the latter after discussion with DWW in MM 2011. ?Chinese Junks ? Some Notes on the Antung Trader? (unpublished typescript dated 22.1.1948 in Waters? papers at NMM. WTS/2)
caption: Chinese junk, starboard broadside
caption: Antung Trader - Port broadside
caption: Antung Trader - Port three quarter bow
caption: Antung Trader - Starboard stern quarter | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | boats Treasures of the National Maritime Museum models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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