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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A contemporary skeleton model of 'St Michael' (1669), a 90-98 gun three-decker ship of the line, built in the Navy Board style. The model is partially decked, equipped and rigged. It was re-rigged circa 1930. On the stern is the Royal Coat of Arms, carved by Robert Spence 1931-32, together with the carved initials ?GR?. This represents the earliest English ship whose model can be identified with any certainty and is depicted as re-classified to a first rate 98-gun ship circa 1672, after her first building.
There are several drawings by the Dutch artist Willem van de Velde of the stern and figurehead decoration which corroborate the detail depicted on the model. The ?St Michael? took part in the battles of Solebay in 1672 and Barfleur in 1692 before being rebuilt in 1706 and renamed ?Marlborough?.
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This represents the earliest English ship whose model can be identified with any certainty and is depicted as re-classified to a first rate 98-gun ship circa 1672, after her first building.
There are several drawings by the Dutch artist Willem van de Velde of the stern and figurehead decoration which corroborate the detail depicted on the model. The St Michael took part in the battles of Solebay in 1672 and Barfleur in 1692 before being rebuilt in 1706 and renamed Marlborough.
caption: 'St. Michael' (1699) - port broadside
caption: 'St. Michael' (1699) - bow three quarter
caption: 'St. Michael' (1699) - stern quarter
caption: 'St. Michael' (1699) - main top detail and yard arms
caption: 'St. Michael' (1699) - stern quarter detail
caption: 'St. Michael' (1699) - stern detail
caption: 'St. Michael' (1699) - quarter gallery detail
caption: 'St. Michael' (1699) - belfry and foscle detail
caption: 'St. Michael' (1699) - figurehead
caption: 'St Michael', starboard � bow
caption: St Michael, 90-98 guns | 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 Robert skeleton models Spence St Michael 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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