Service vessel; Launch

Scale: 1:48. A modern exhibition model of the 18-foot cutter as issued to HM Transport ‘Bounty’ (1784) and included as part of a larger diorama showing the ship alongside a quay loading supplies for a upcoming voyage. The hull is of carvel construction and is shown tied up alongside the quay. It is one of three boats issued to the ‘Bounty’ and would have been stowed inside the larger launch in the waist

Object Details

ID: SLR3003
Collection: Ship models
Type: Full hull model; Rigged model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Britten, Kenneth
Events: Mutiny on the Bounty, 1789
Vessels: Bounty (purchased 1787)
Date made: 1988
People: National Maritime Museum; Britten, Kenneth
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Reproduced with kind permission of Kenneth Britten, modelmaker
Measurements: Overall model: 31 mm x 141 mm x 42 mm
Parts: Service vessel; Launch
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