Ship Models
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Glasgow Museums has large and internationally significant collection of ship models. They range from eighteenth-century British Navy-board models to early shipbuilding half-hull models, beautifully detailed twentieth-century exhibition models and lovingly crafted amateur models. There are 676 models in the main collection and they can be grouped and considered in a number of ways useful for general interest and research. The first, and most significant, of these are those models which directly relate to the shipbuilding and shipping industries of the Clyde. These are the half-hull design and plating models that were used in the construction of full-size vessels, and the full-hull display models which were used to promote the work of the shipbuilder, or the vessels owned by a shipping company, at exhibition. Most models directly relate to Clyde-based shipyards, meaning that our three-dimensional record of shipbuilding in the west of Scotland is unparalleled. The models are also of interest for the types of vessel they represent. There are large groupings of models representing passenger, cargo and naval vessels and also models of pioneering and innovative ships of the past two centuries. There are models of huge transatlantic liners, tiny passenger ferries, lifeboats, tugs, warships, dredgers, tea clippers, fishing boats and yachts, as well as models of some of the most famous vessels ever built – the liner Queen Mary and battlecruiser Hood, and the paddle steamer Waverley, and to name but three. The models are the work of skilled craftsmen, whose finest models attract and engage visitors in the twenty-first century in the same way that they did over one hundred years ago.
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Models of Clyde Steamers and other Clyde Favourites
Models of Dredgers and Hoppers
Models of Fossil Fuel Industry Related Vessels
Models of Yachts and Leisure Craft
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