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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of a 50-gun small two-decker (circa 1715), built plank on frame in the Navy Board style. The model is decked and partially planked to the mainwales, and equipped with a 'jeer? capstan, used for raising and lowering the yards. The main capstan is located further aft on the deck below and would have been used when hauling the anchor and its cable. The model is mounted on its original base, supported the entire length of its keel, by a veneer and inlay 'keel block?. At this scale it represent a ship measuring 132 feet along the gun deck by 34 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 700 tons.
CA: AAA. Suggest reference in the Royal Naval Museum Catalogue (1913), pg 46 or 47, Vanguard Room (West), No 7 Case, No 3 or No 9 Case, No 4. Referred to as a Royal Naval Museum model in Anderson's catalogue, 1952.
At this scale it represent a ship measuring 132 feet along the gun deck by 34 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 700 tons.
caption: 50-54-gunship (c.1715) - port broadside
caption: 50-54-gunship (c.1715) - bow three quarter
caption: 50-54-gunship (c.1715) - stern quarter
caption: 50-54-gunship (c.1715) - stern
caption: Ship of 50 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 skeleton models Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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