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Warship; Fourth rate; 60 guns
Scale: 1:48. A block design model of a third-rate, 60-gun, two-decker ship of the line (circa 1730).
Eleven ships were made to the specifications of the 1719 Establishment, which this model represents. These vessels were 144 feet in length, 30 feet in the beam, and weighed 952 tons burden. They carried 400 men. They were armed with twenty-four 24-pound guns on their gun decks, twenty-six 9-pounders on their upper decks, eight 6-pounders on their quarterdecks and two 6-pounders on their forecastles.
Eleven ships were made to the specifications of the 1719 Establishment, which this model represents. These vessels were 144 feet in length, 30 feet in the beam, and weighed 952 tons burden. They carried 400 men. They were armed with twenty-four 24-pound guns on their gun decks, twenty-six 9-pounders on their upper decks, eight 6-pounders on their quarterdecks and two 6-pounders on their forecastles.
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Object Details
| ID: | SLR0439 |
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| Collection: | Ship models |
| Type: | Full hull model; Block model |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Date made: | 1730 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Royal Naval Museum Greenwich Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall model: 287 x 1086 x 248 mm; Base: 90 x 1128 x 264 mm |
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