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HMS Adventure
Figurehead from the troopship HMS 'Adventure' in the form of a female head wearing a crown of stars, and finished with polychrome oil paint. This was an iron-built storeship purchased by the Navy while on the stocks at Laird's, Birkenhead, in 1855 and originally named 'Resolute'. After the previous 'Resolute' – see FHD0117 – was salvaged in the Arctic and returned home in 1856, this vessel was renamed 'Adventure' in 1857 and used as a troopship until broken up at Chatham in 1877.
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Object Details
| ID: | FHD0119 |
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| Collection: | Figureheads |
| Type: | Figurehead |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Adventure (1855) |
| Date made: | 1855 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 686 mm x 457 mm x 533 mm x 31 kg |
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