Model of a Gunboat, Polychromed block model of a Staunch gunboat, on groundboard. It is a flat bottom with rather pronounced keel and kim keels, vertical stern, elliptical fence, rudder with rounded rudder blade, two four-blade screws. The main deck is surrounded by a dense railing, which separates it from the louse plague, on which two davits stand. On the main deck we see, from the rear to the front: steering wheel, compass house, a small covered entrance, a roef, a short pole post, two parallel deck houses with deck lights, a ventilation shaft and a chimney each, a large covered entrance between them, a capstan the front deck a covered gun rack. Various cupboards and two racks with grenades have been fitted against the railing, a sloop in davits hangs on starboard. The canopy over the gun rack can be removed, revealing a cannon in Moncrieff case, Ever (ship), Hydra (ship), W.G. Armstrong & Co, Newcastle upon Tyne, c. 1870 - c. 1871, wood (plant material), brass (alloy), rope, h 26 cm × l 88.5 cm × w 24.8 cm
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