An extremely fine museum quality 1:48 scale model of a pinnace/ship's boat of circa 1775

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An extremely fine museum quality 1:48 scale model of a pinnace/ship's boat of circa 1775
built from his own researches and data suppled by the National Maritime Museum by R.A. Lightley, with frames and stringers, thwarts, knees, stern seats, thole pins, tiller and rudder of boxwood, lifting rings, eight oars, and other details, finished in white and Venetian red, the sheer planks and transom decorated with a frieze of scrolling and flowers in blue with yellow tinted white shading and mounted on two turned brass columns on a mahogany display base. Measurements overall -- 3½ x 8in. (9 x 20.3cm.)
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Literature

National Maritime Museum Draught BU(e)1
A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine by W.A. Falconer
National Maritime Museum Monograph No.15, 1974 by Commander W.E. May

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Lot Essay

The pinnace was one of many types of ship's boats in use by warships and merchantmen from the 17^th to the 19^th Century. The Pinnace, according to Falconers Marine Dictionary is resembling a barge but smaller, never rowing more than eight oars. The Pinnace is for the accommodation of the Lieutentants etc. They were pleasant-looking craft distinguished generally by the wash boards at the bow and stern. Very often, time was spent in decorating such a boat by means of painted friezes in various designs and colours. Principal dimensions: Overall length -- 28ft; Extreme beam -- 8ft 6ins; Depth, gunwhale to keel -- 3ft 3in.

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