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Description: | Scale: 1:32. A clinker-built contemporary full hull model of the ?Swallow? (1779), a 14-gun brig, built in the Georgian style. The model is decked, equipped and scenic. It is depicted on a slipway and can be used for launching demonstrations. There is painted decoration on the stern including a winged fish and the name ?Swallow?. Sweep ports were fitted between the midship gunports.
Built by Ladd, Dover, the ?Swallow? measured 79 feet along the upper deck by 27 feet in the beam, displacing 226 tons. It was armed with fourteen 6-pounders. ?Swallow? was one of a class of brig-rigged sloops built in private shipyards for the Royal Navy. Its career at sea was short lived: in 1781 it was driven ashore by four American privateers and wrecked near Long Island.
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Built by Ladd, Dover, the Swallow measured 79 feet along the upper deck by 27 feet in the beam, displacing 226 tons. It was armed with fourteen 6-pounders. Swallow was one of a class of brig-rigged sloops built in private shipyards for the Royal Navy. Its career at sea was short lived: in 1781 it was driven ashore by four American privateers and wrecked near Long Island.
caption: 'Swallow', port broadside
caption: 'Swallow', port 3/4 bow
caption: 'Swallow', starboard stern quarter | 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 Swallow 1779 full hull ship models | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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