6th Rate Turret Ship ‘HMS Active’ 1866
Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of the sixth- rate turret ship HMS ‘Active’ (1866). It is complete with its original decorated wooden base and is fully rigged with tripod masts and spars. This model illustrates one of a series of eight men-of-war as proposed by Vice-Admiral E. P. Halsted, which carried guns, and turrets as designed by Captain Cowper Coles.
Measuring 367 feet in length by 52 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 4926 (builder’s old measurement), the ‘Active’ was to be a heavily armed corvette for service as a cruiser in the protection of merchant shipping. She would have had two turrets with four 9-inch guns on the upper deck, and a full broadside armament fitted on the deck below.
The model has both working turrets as well as a mechanism for operating the screw and the maker’s name would suggest it was associated with the engine makers, Humphrey & Tennant.
Measuring 367 feet in length by 52 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 4926 (builder’s old measurement), the ‘Active’ was to be a heavily armed corvette for service as a cruiser in the protection of merchant shipping. She would have had two turrets with four 9-inch guns on the upper deck, and a full broadside armament fitted on the deck below.
The model has both working turrets as well as a mechanism for operating the screw and the maker’s name would suggest it was associated with the engine makers, Humphrey & Tennant.
Object Details
| ID: | SLR0982 |
|---|---|
| Collection: | Ship models |
| Type: | Design, Full hull model |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Humphrey Davis, Humphrey |
| Vessels: | Active (1866) |
| Date made: | circa 1866 |
| People: | Robert Napier & Sons; Halsted, Edward Pellew |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall model: 1500 x 2605 x 790 mm; Base: 277 x 2915 x 626 mm |
| Parts: | 6th Rate Turret Ship ‘HMS Active’ 1866 |