Model of a Lifeboat

Rigged frame model of a double-banked lifeboat of ten oars, the guns are missing. It is a smooth-sided sharp-sterned sloop, with curved bowsprit and straight, slightly falling stern. The skin is painted white. It has a double skin, with buoyancy tanks attached in the inner skin; five hatches, an open cabin, a small foredeck and aft deck. The wide rudder has no tiller but a steering quadrant, of which the tiller ropes are missing. The model is equipped with ten oars, two boat hooks, two round lifebuoys and an anchor. It is rigged with sails, the main mast with a lug sail and a jib, the mizzen with a small triangular sail with boom; Dutch flag. Scale 1:10.