Ship model
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- OBJECT TYPE
- SCREW STEAMER/AUX. SAIL/RESEARCH VESSEL/1:64 SCALE
- DATE
- 1975
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1975.0617.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Bassett-Lowke Ltd.
- MODEL
- CHALLENGER, HMS
- LOCATION
- Northampton, England
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- WOOD
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 145.0 cm
- Width
- 50.0 cm
- Height
- 81.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Marine Transportation
- Category
- Models
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Bassett Lowke
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Northampton
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
ONE OF THE SCIENTISTS ON BOARD THE CHALLENGER WAS CANADIAN BORN JOHN MURRAY. HE EDITED THE 50 PUBLISHED VOLUMES OF THE RESULTS THAT THE EXPEDITION PRODUCED, AND WROTE THE THEN STANDARD TEXT FOR OCEANOGRAPHY ENTITLED 'THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN'. - Function
-
DISPLAY - Technical
-
WOODEN STEAMER WITH AUXILIARY SAIL. ORIGINALLY BUILT AS A CORVETTE (SMALL, THREE MASTED WARSHIP CARRYING BETWEEN 10 & 20 GUNS), THEN CONVERTED INTO A FLOATING LABORATORY. IN THE CONVERSION, 20 GUNS WERE REMOVED, ACCOMODATIONS FOR THE SCIENTISTS & THEIR LABS WERE PROVIDED, AND THE DREDGING PLATFORM INSTALLED FROM WHICH THE DREGES AND TRAWLS COULD BE LOWERED AND RAISED. - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- none apparent
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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Bassett-Lowke Ltd., Ship model, circa 1975, Artifact no. 1975.0617, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1975.0617.001/
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