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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull block model of the storeship ?Deptford? (1735), built in ?bread and butter? fashion. Measuring 124 feet along the gun deck by 33 feet in the beam and with a tonnage of 951, it was built at Deptford Dockyard and launched in April 1735. It was armed with 24 guns, comprising of a mixture of 12- and 9-pounders, which would only be used in self defence.
Storeships were designed to carry naval stores such as spars, timber, cordage and tar, all the material required for the running repairs for warships at sea. The ?Deptford? was finally broken up in 1756.
CA: BAB. According to Anderson's catalogue it is referenced in the Portsmouth Dockyard Museum catalogue as No 65.
Measuring 124 feet along the gun deck by 33 feet in the beam and with a tonnage of 951, it was built at Deptford Dockyard and launched in April 1735. It was armed with 24 guns, comprising of a mixture of 12- and 9-pounders, which would only be used in self defence.
Storeships were designed to carry naval stores such as spars, timber, cordage and tar, all the material required for the running repairs for warships at sea. The ?Deptford? was finally broken up in 1756.
caption: Deptford 1735 - port broadside
caption: Deptford 1735 - bow three quarter
caption: Deptford 1735 - stern quarter
caption: Deptford | 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 Deptford 1735 blocks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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