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Description: | Scale: 1:40. A full hull model of the Royal Yacht ?Mary? circa 1660, built in ?bread and butter? fashion. The model is decked, equipped and fully rigged with the sails set. It has been constructed using two known drawings of the ?Mary? and contemporary plans of a similar vessel.
The ?Mary? was originally built for the Dutch East India Company and then bought by the City of Amsterdam for presentation to King Charles II at his restoration in 1660. Measuring 66 feet in length by 18 feet in the beam, it was 100 tons burden and carried an armament of six three-pounder guns. The hull is of a typical Dutch form with a flat and shallow draught using adjustable lee-boards to act as a keel when under sail. In the yachts subsequently built in England, the lee-boards were abandoned and the hulls made deeper and finer (see SLR0375). The ?Mary? was the first official royal yacht and used by the King for pleasure and visits to the fleet. It was wrecked in the Irish Sea in 1675.
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The Mary was originally built for the Dutch East India Company and then bought by the City of Amsterdam for presentation to King Charles II at his restoration in 1660. Measuring 66 feet in length by 18 feet in the beam, it was 100 tons burden and carried an armament of six three-pounder guns. The hull is of a typical Dutch form with a flat and shallow draught using adjustable lee-boards to act as a keel when under sail. In the yachts subsequently built in England, the lee-boards were abandoned and the hulls made deeper and finer (see SLR0375). The Mary was the first official royal yacht and used by the King for pleasure and visits to the fleet. It was wrecked in the Irish Sea in 1675.
caption: 'Mary' (1660) - port broadside
caption: 'Mary' (1660) - bow three quarter
caption: 'Mary' (1660) - stern quarter
caption: 'Mary', starboard � bow
caption: 'Mary' | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Mary 1660 Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum Peter G. Naish and Robert Naish Francis Clement Prideaux blocks Naish models (representations) Yachting | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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