No. 52 was a whole model (scale 1:96) of a warship in 1862 presented to to the British Admiralty by Messrs. Westwood and Baillie (1) in 1865 handed over to the museum. It was a broadside battery with a number of fixed semi-circular towers each provided with three gun ports which permitted a single gun pivoted within being trained to a considerable angle. For direct fore and aft gunfire were in the bow and stern gun ports cut out. With a displacement of 8,000 tons were the dimensions 365 x 60 x 22.5 feet. Armament consisted of 22 guns.
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1. Firm based at London Yards, Cubitt Town/East London, England and founded in 1856 by Robert Baillie and Joseph Westwood, closed in 1893 which was well known for building ironclads.
Source
Catalague of the Naval and Marine Engineering Collection in the Science Division of the Victora and Albert Museum, London, 1899.
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