One of the finest collections of ship models. What did they do? They CLOSED it! A national scandal. The National Maritime Museum did the same with what was probably THE finest of its kind. Makes me ashamed to be British.
Closed down and replaced with a collection of mobile phones and other electronic push button rubbish.They have to cater for the hoi polloi with no sense of Britains Maritime History.@@p.b.5107
The most impressive model of all time is the HMS Victory, which is built of boxwood, with complete internal fittings down to the hummocks guns and buckets inside. The decks laid and caulked. Even the ropes are to scale.The detail is fantastic and from memory I was told it took 23 years to build. It does not appear to be exhibited, pity.
I remember as a boy seeing the model you describe. It was unpainted. Breathtakingly wonderful. Huge - the case 7 feet long, 5 feet high and 3 feet wide - with every detail constructed as the original! It was made by C. Nepean Longridge in the years before and after WW2. He estimated it took him 12,000 hours. In 1959/61 he published a book ‘The Anatomy of Nelson’s Ships’ based on the model’s construction. It comprises close and full description, historical research, plans, line drawings and photographs. For anyone fascinated by the whole subject the book is a treasure and a joy.
Saddened to read the comments advising that this splendid collection has now gone (essential for ever), as someone who travelled to the UK from Australia to enjoy this and the many other fabulous British museums and collections, I lament, yet again, that the wankers with university degrees have been allowed to influence these great exhibitions. I was similarly horrified at visiting Greenwich to find that the displays of big things were now replaced by small quantities of small objects in dimly lit glass cases, all with an equally dimly lit info cards in the smallest type. Hopefully the York Railway Museum won’t be similarly “infected” otherwise we’ll find the Mallard removed and replaced by a single guards cap in a glass case.
It a disease that has been running amok for years in UK museums. They acquire funding for renovation and modernization, often on the basis of appealing to a wider audience and children, put all the fantastic artifacts into storage, create open bright spaces then put posters and pictures with bright colours on the walls and display cases that display poor IT screens with digital interaction that often dont work and compete poorly with what you can get on the internet or from books Dumb down all information, pack the place with school trips with kids that run wild, bored at the lack of anything beyond 'toys'. Museums will soon go the way of the dodo if they keep boring kids with condescending sterile rubbish. They completely miss the point that the real life artifacts they have in storage are the only things that make them better than the internet.
The Queen Elizabeth at 8:00!!! I have one of these! She's 30 feet long, the hull is fiberglass. Well I'll be, Another 30 foot Queen Elizabeth. I also have a 18 foot model of the QE-2 and the 1/3rd scale model of the Mayflower build in 1952 by Warner Brothers. It was used in the movie 'Plymouth Adventure. Search, Original Benjamin's Calabash seafood restaurant, click on model ships.
FOR FUTURE REFERENCE TO ALL MODEL VIDEOGRAPHERS: It is IMPORTANTY to SHOW or ANNOUNCE the NAME, DATE, TYPE, SCALE, BUILDER, ETC. of the models you are showing so that the viewer knows EXACTLY WHAT HE/SHE IS LOOKING AT. The models all seemed of superb quality, and I hope some retired person with a lot of time on their hands would go through the museum and carefully video every single model, but unfortunately that most probably won't happen. I live in Memphis, TN, U.S.A. and probably will never get to visit this wonderful museum. Thanks for what you did manage to show.
Thank you very much for this impression. It's a pity that they can't sort the models in a chronicle order. Nuclear subs beside Pre - Dreadnoughts, Steamboats near Oiltankers. Kids shall get a feeling for the shipfeatures of different times.
