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Description: | Scale: Unknown. Waterline scenic model of the Brisk (1839), a two-masted ketch rigged cargo vessel. The model is decked, equipped, and rigged with sails set and full of wind. The hull is painted black from the waterline up, with a rubbing strake running from the bow to the stern, picked out in white. On the foredeck is a windlass, a companion hatch and a cargo hatch together with a figure handling rope. Situated on the main hatch, just after the main mast, is a small rowing boat, coils of rope, a spare gaff and a gangboard. There is a water barrel on chocks just aft of the cargo hatch. There is another figure at the stern manning the tiller.
The rig comprises of a mainsail and a gaff topsail, two headsails, a foresail and a jib, and a gaff rigged sail on the mizzen mast. The sails are made of paper and have the individual sail clothes marked on together with two rows of reefing points.
The model is mounted on a moulded putty sea base which has been painted and enclosed within a Perspex top and wooden case. There is a black seabird show flying across the water. On the black band at the base of the case is inscribed "Brisk of Swanage Isle of Purbeck". On the underside it is inscribed "Brisk of Swanage owned by Captain Thomas Masters, 1847-1876. Sailed in the Isle of Purbeck stone trade. A. G. L. Hardy 1986.
CA: BBC. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Brisk 1839 waterline models models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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