A Curious Model of the Britannia, a Ship of 100 guns »
The Admiralty ‘Pull-Apart’ model for the First Rate Ship of the Line Britannia, scale 1:48. Workshop of John Hayward, Master Shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard, circa 1715. A contemporary dockyard model fully decked, equipped, and made to separate at the gun deck, revealing the deck beams. Mounted on a later baseboard with plaque inscribed: ‘The Worshipful […]
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