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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A half block model of the starboard side of the Spanish cruisers Gravina (1881) and Velasco (1881) made entirely in wood with metal fittings and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted tan brown below the waterline, with a narrow cream stripe above and black above the waterline. Fittings include a decorated bow and stern; stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast and mizzen; forecastle and poop deck enclosed by guard rails; enclosed bridge or pilot house; single stump funnel, painted ochre; provision for a single propeller; and rudder. The model is displayed on a rectangular wooden backboard painted light blue-grey with a narrow wooden frame. Hand-rendered on backboard ?66 Gravina & Velasco?, ?Armament 3-4 ton guns Engines 1 H.P. 1500 Speed 14-4 Kts. Dimensions Length 210'-0" Breath 32'-0" Depth 17'-0" Displ 1200? and ?Built for the Spanish Government, by the Thames Iron works & Shipbuilding Comp, Blackwall London. 1881.?.
CA: BAC. A5 Catalogue card has it as loaned by the executors of Tarry Adams in 1935. Need to find out when it was acquired.
caption: Block model | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Velasco 1881 Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum blocks Gravina 1881 models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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