Inventarnummer
200506.2.10
Titel
Sword and Scabbard Fragments
Beschreibung
3 fragments of sword and scabbard consisting of the hilt, which is ridged black and white, the outer scabbard with a small piece of the blade, this is split open and is coloured black and white with some rust, and the metal tip of the scabbard. The latter has a rounded end and two srews at the opposite end covering the metal inside. Recovered from the wreck of HMS Royal George that sank at Spithead in 1782. The wreck was dived between 1839 and 1842 by RE Divers. These items were taken into the collection of Augustus Siebe, the designer of the diving suits used. The collection was broken up in 1998 when the Siebe Gorman factory closed, most of the items were passed to the Science museum and these items, deemed surplus to their collection, were subsequently passed to the RE Museum. This candle was numbered 34 by the Science Museum.
Entstehungsort
UK
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