Models of Naval Ships
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of ship models related to war and national security at sea. The collection ranges from navy board models of sailing warships built in the seventeenth century for the English navy to a Type-23 frigate built on the Clyde for the Royal Navy in the late twentieth century. Naval vessels are categorised by their size, their design and the tasks they undertake at sea – and battle ships, cruisers, frigates, torpedo boats, destroyers, submarines, minesweepers and aircraft carriers are represented in Glasgow Museums collection, as well as vessels which played more of a supporting role such as troop ships, tenders and landing craft. There are also models of vessels which were built for merchant shipping use, but were temporarily requisitioned or sold to foreign navies and then converted for naval use. There are 57 models of naval vessels in the collection, with five dating to before 1800, 21 from the nineteenth century and 31 from the twentieth century. The half-hull model of the brig Linnet shows one of the first naval vessels associated with a Clyde builder (though the real vessel was built in Canada) and the model of the iron-clad frigate Black Prince shows the first major naval contract awarded to a Clyde shipyard. The battle-cruiser Hood was one of the most famous naval vessels in the world in the 1930s and Norfolk shows the type of naval vessel still built on the river in the early twenty-first century.
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