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Description: | Scale: 1:24. A contemporary builder?s full hull model of the single-screw steam tug ?Ajax? (1877). The hull is mounted on its original wooden baseboard and is complete with a number of fittings including fore hatch, skylight, ventilation cowlings, a stump mast and a single funnel on the engine room and bridge casing. The funnel is hinged and fitted with a counterbalance weight, to enable it to go under the bridges and work up river.
Measuring 60 feet in length by 13 feet in the beam, the ?Ajax? had a Thames tonnage of 46. She was built by the Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company, Blackwall, and represents a typical working tug that could be seen operating along the length of the tidal Thames carrying out a variety of tows from dumb barges to sailing and steaming vessels in and around the London Docks.
CA: AAA.
caption: Ajax 1877 - port broadside
caption: Ajax 1877 - bow three quarter
caption: Ajax 1877 - stern quarter | 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 Edgar Tarry full hull ship models Adams Ajax (1877) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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