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Description: | Scale: 1:120. A 19th-century full hull model of a four-masted 80-gun galleon or man-of-war (circa 1560), built in 'bread and butter' fashion. Model is decked, equipped and fully rigged with sails furled and set.
Although intended to portray the 'Henri Grace a Dieu' or 'Great Harry' built during the reign of Henry VIII, the bow, fine stern and reduced castles suggest a warship of a later date. Of historical interest are the topgallant sails carried on the fore and main masts, the lateen topsails and topgallants on the mizzen and the topsail on the bonaventure mizzen mast at the stern. At this scale, the model represents a ship measuring 140 feet along the gun deck by 36 feet in the beam and an approximate tonnage of 1000 burden.
This reconstruction model is recorded as having been commissioned for display at the Great Exhibition of 1851, its source apparently being a slightly earlier one, then in private hands, which is now SLR0224 .
CA: ABB.
This reconstruction model is recorded as having been commissioned for display at the Great Exhibition of 1851, its source apparently being a slightly earlier one, then in private hands, which is now SLR0224 .
Although intended to portray the 'Henri Grace a Dieu' or 'Great Harry' built during the reign of Henry VIII, the bow, fine stern and reduced castles suggest a warship of a later date. Of historical interest are the topgallant sails carried on the fore and main masts, the lateen topsails and topgallants on the mizzen and the topsail on the bonaventure mizzen mast at the stern. At this scale, the model represents a ship measuring 140 feet along the gun deck by 36 feet in the beam and an approximate tonnage of 1000 burden.
caption: Galleon - port broadside
caption: Galleon - stern quarter
caption: Galleon - bow three quarter
caption: 80-gun Galleon or Man-of-war; 'Great Harry' - Broadside view
caption: 80-gun Galleon or Man-of-war; 'Great Harry' | 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 Royal Naval College Museum Catalogue full hull ship models Great Harry 1560 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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