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Description: | Scale: 1:32. Lever/handle for the contemporary full hull model of the yacht Bolton(circa 1709), built plank on frame in the Navy Board style. The model is decked and includes a variety of fittings such as guns on wooden carriages, a large wooden windlass in the bow and a single stump mast. Measuring 53 feet along the deck and 14 feet in the beam, it had a tonnage of 42 and carried six 3-pounder guns.
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Measuring 53 feet along the deck and 14 feet in the beam, it had a tonnage of 42 and carried six 3-pounder guns. The style and workmanship of this model would suggest that it was made later than the launch of the actual vessel, probably when extensive repairs were carried out in 1763.
Rigged as a single-masted cutter, the ?Bolton? was used by the Governor of the Isle of Wight until 1763 when it was found to be ?entirely decayed'. Later in 1773 it was fitted for the use of the ?Young Gentlemen of the Academy', the Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth Dockyard, in lieu of the ?Old Portsmouth? (later ?Medina?) yacht. The ?Bolton? was eventually broken up in 1817. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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