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Description: | Scale: 1:38.4. A contemporary full hull model of the yacht Plymouth circa 1755, built plank on frame in the Navy Board style. The model is decked and equipped with a variety of fittings such as a rudder with a wooden tiller, capstan, deck gratings, companionway and stump masts (modern replacements). The decoration on the stern, quarter galleries and figurehead is particularly fine and is probably carved in boxwood. Also the painted friezes along the bulwark screens is virtually un-touched and in original condition having been applied directly onto the model itself.
CA: AAA.
The Plymouth measured 64 feet along the deck with a beam of 18 feet and a tonnage of 89 burthen. It was rigged as a two-masted ketch and carried six 2-pounder guns on the upper deck. It was built as the official yacht of the Commissioner of the Royal Dockyard at Plymouth, replacing the previous yacht Drake launched in 1729. It remained in service until 1793 when, after being broken up, it was replaced by another yacht of the same name (see SLR0304).
caption: 'Plymouth', port stern quarter
caption: 'Plymouth' (1755) - port broadside
caption: 'Plymouth' (1755) - bow three quarter
caption: 'Plymouth' (1755) - stern quarter
caption: 'Plymouth' (1755) - stern detail
caption: 'Plymouth' (1755) - quarter deck seating
caption: 'Plymouth' (1755) - figurehead side view
caption: 'Plymouth' (1755) - figurehead front view
caption: 'Plymouth', port 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 full hull ship models Plymouth 1755 Yachting | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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