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

1. Warship(1800); French:Third rate; 74 guns (SLR0633)

bone

2. Warship (1800); French; Frigate; 44-48 gun (SLR0626)

bone

3. Joan D’Arc (1800); Warship; Brig; 14 gun (SLR0623)

bone

4. 44-50-gun frigate (SLR0635)

bone

5. Warship; 100 Guns; French (SLR0630)

bone

6. Warship(1800); Third rate; 74 guns (SLR0634)

bone

7. Boulvar; Warship; 74Guns(SLR0636)

bone

8. Themis(1796); Warship; French; Frigate; 48 guns…(SLR0639)

wood+bone/ivory

9. Foudroyant (1798); Warship; French(?)Third rate; 80 guns...(SLR0632)

bone

10. Le Foudroyant(1800); Warship; Third rate; 74 guns...(SLR0637)

bone

11. La Gloire(1803); French; Frigate; 40 gun (SLR0646)

wood+bone/ivory

12. Warship(1810); French; Frigate; 44-46 guns (SLR0664)

wood+bone/ivory

13. 80 Gun Two Decker ‘Le Mars’ (SLR0617)

wood

14. Fighting vessel(1800); French; Sloop; 12 guns (SLR0641)

Dieppe?

15. Warship(1800); French; Frigate; 44-46 guns (SLR0663)

wood

16. Warship(1794); Frigate; Fifth rate; Diana class; 38 guns...(SLR0342)

wood+bone/ivory

17. Warship; First rate; 120 guns (SLR0629)

bone

18. Impregnable; Warship; First rate; 100 guns (SLR0610)

wood

19. Warship(1800); Frigate (SLR0667)

wood

20. Warship(1800); French; third rate; 74-gun (SLR0622)

bone+horn

21. Halsewell; Warship; frigate; 60 guns (SLR0616)

bone+wood

22. Victory (1765); Warship; First rate; 100 guns (SLR0640)

bone

23. Amelia (circa 1796); Warship; 38 gun frigate (SLR0642)

bone

24. Warship; 100-guns (SLR0615)

bone

25. Warship; Third rate; 74 guns (SLR0013)

bone+wood

15 bone ship models