Model with rigging of the 1852 Royal Navy steam ship H.M.S. Agamemnon. [ZM 7/4/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Model with rigging of the 1852 Royal Navy steam ship H.M.S. Agamemnon. [ZM 7/4/2017]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England
Cultural groups: English
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Reginald Andrade
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1940
Date collected: By 1940
Acquisition information: Purchased: 02/1940
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material String, Material Metal, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Strung
Dimensions: Height: max 375 mm, Width: max 230 mm, Length: max 610 mm, Width: max 88 mm base
Object numbers: Accession number: 1940.2.1B
Research and responses: For information about this style of model naval ship see chapter 12 'Rigged Models' on pages 86 to 93 of Brian Lavery and Simon Stephens Ship Models: Their Purpose and Development from 1650 to the Present (London: Zwemmer, 1995). [ZM 2/3/2017]
See Winfield, Rif and Lyon, David, 2004, The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815-1889 (London: Chatham Publishing) for information about the 1852 built H.M.S. Agamemnon. [ZM 7/3/2017]