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Description: | Scale: 1:24. Full hull design model of a ship's pinnace (circa 1838), built plank on frame in clinker fashion. One of a set of ten boat designs (SLR0768-SLR0777) proposed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, to be carried by a first-rate man-of-war. Built in the Georgian style, the hull is mounted on turned wooden pillars above a beaded wooden baseboard on which is the number ?2? on a paper label. Another loose paper label reads ?Boat barge 1838-12 32ft For Man-of-war First rate 1838 - by Symonds 1/2 scale 5" Length 17" Beam excluding rudder?. The hull is complete with six thwarts, bottom boards, seating in the stern sheets, and a rudder fitted with a tiller.
The origins of the pinnace can be traced as far back as 1618 when it was one of the three boat types carried by warships. By the beginning of the 19th century, it was available in eight lengths ranging from 28 to 37 feet, built in either double diagonal or clinker fashion, and could be rowed or sailed. They were sometimes known as barges and used for a variety of jobs from transporting stores and men when at anchor, to assisting in survey work in shallow waters.
CA: AAB. Possible in Royal Naval Museum 1913 Catalogue Windsor Castle Room, No 1 Case, Nos 1-9 though the year is 1855 not 1838.
The origins of the pinnace can be traced back as far as 1618 when it was listed as one of the three boat types carried by warships. By the beginning of the 19th century a pinnace was available in eight lengths ranging from 28 feet to 37 feet, and could either be rowed or sailed. They were used for a variety of jobs from transporting stores and men when at anchor, to assisting in survey work in shallow river and estuaries. This series of models includes some of the earliest contemporary references to double-diagonal planking construction, the main principal of which is to produce a thin but very strong lightweight hull.
Another loose paper label reads ?Boat barge 1838-12 32ft For Man-of-war First rate 1838 - by Symonds 1/2 scale 5" Length 17" Beam excluding rudder?
caption: Pinnace, starboard broadside
caption: Pinnace, starboard stern quarter
caption: Pinnace, port 3/4 bow
caption: unavailable
caption: Design, Full hull model | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich William 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 Symonds South Kensington Museum Naval Models Catalogue | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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