Royal Museums Greenwich, National Maritime Museum
The "National Maritime Museum" in Greenwich (NMM) has one of the largest collections of
Bone Ship Models in the world. The models were mostly made around the turn of the 18th
to the 19th century by Prisoners of War confined in British prisons. To see photos of the
models available through the internet, click on the links in the table below:
National Maritime Museum London |
Material |
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bone |
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bone |
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bone |
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bone |
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bone |
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bone |
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bone |
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8. Themis(1796); Warship; French; Frigate; 48 guns…(SLR0639) |
wood+bone/ivory |
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9. Foudroyant (1798); Warship; French(?)Third rate; 80 guns...(SLR0632) |
bone |
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10. Le Foudroyant(1800); Warship; Third rate; 74 guns...(SLR0637) |
bone |
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wood+bone/ivory |
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wood+bone/ivory |
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wood |
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Dieppe? |
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wood |
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16. Warship(1794); Frigate; Fifth rate; Diana class; 38 guns...(SLR0342) |
wood+bone/ivory |
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bone |
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wood |
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wood |
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bone+horn |
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bone+wood |
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bone |
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bone |
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bone |
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bone+wood |
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15 bone ship models |