F5844-002

'Mayflower', port 3/4 bow Long Caption: Scale: 1:48. A waterline model of the ‘Mayflower’ (circa 1615), a cargo and sailing vessel. The model is decked, equipped and rigged with sails set. Very little is known about the ‘Mayflower’s’ original appearance but the approximate dimensions were a length of 90 feet by 26 feet in the beam and 180 tons burden. It was a typical merchantman of the early Stuart period being three-masted, square-rigged on the fore and main masts, with a triangular lateen on the mizzen and a square spritsail rigged from under the bowsprit. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Reproduced with kind permission of the artist's son and grandsons. Object: SLR0309 Artist: Captain John Roe, DSO, OBE, RN Date: 1975 Medium: wood; cotton; linen; brass; metal; perspex; paint Size: 578 mm x 840 mm x 283 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.