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Description: | Scale: 1:48. Half block model of HMS Bonetta (1836), a 3 gun brigantine. The model is made in wood with some metal fittings and constructed in bread and butter fashion. The hull has been hollowed out internally and is painted a copper colour below the waterline with the upperworks and bulwarks painted black and divided by a thin white line. There are six gunports on the upper portion of the hull, complete with hinged portlids. The model is complete with a rounded stern and quarter gallery, a rudder fitted to the stern with gudgeons and pintles, a cathead and a trailboard running into the figurehead (missing). The hull is also fitted with a pair of channels, complete with chain plates and deadeyes, most of which are painted black. The decks have been finished just below the level of the bulwarks and painted creamy-white. The model is mounted on a wooden backboard painted creamy-white with a mahogany stained edging. The backboard is inscribed 'HMS Bonetta Tons 319 Built 1836'.
The model has been recently restored with the additions and repairs finished in a natural wood colour.
CA: BAB. Previous catalogue entry records a label, now missing: 'Code 1-2-1-1-2 The Science Museum store No 15592 Date 1.6.56'.
caption: HMS Bonetta (1836) - broadside | 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 Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue Royal Naval College Museum blocks models (representations) Bonetta 1836 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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