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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On 5 July 2022, Sotheby’s London sold an extraordinary early model of HMS Victory which had been on loan at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich since 1962. Familiar to scholars, the model is the only known contemporary model of Victory in her Trafalgar state and it offers an invaluable and important material record to the […]
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