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Description: | Scale: 1:24. A contemporary full hull model of a royal or state barge as used by Queen Anne (circa 1710), built plank on frame in the Navy Board style. Model is partially decked and planked, and is complete with ten oarsmen. The original figure of Queen Anne was lost so a replacement was made by Mr Varrall in the NMM workshop in 1965, which was eventually returned to him, with the arrival of the present figure, carved by Mr R. A. Lightley and presented to the Museum in 1975. The ten rowing figures, clad in the uniforms of the Royal Bargemen, are all contemporary. The model is made largely from boxwood, with the carved decoration around the gunwale being of the highest quality.
This type of barge, known as a shallop, was commonly used for taking royalty to and from warships in anchorage and along the River Thames. Built in clinker fashion, it measured 36 feet in length by seven feet in the beam. Remarkably, two full-size examples of these boats still survive: Queen Mary?s shallop of 1689 (BAE0039) is in the NMM collection, and the carvel-built barge of Charles II, which is owned by the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth.
CA: AAA. Flag missing from flagstaff.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | 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 Sergison skeleton models Charles (Clerk of the Acts to th Queen Anne models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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