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A BUILDER'S HALF BLOCK PLATING MODEL FOR THE COASTER M.V. SUPREMITY, BUILT BY GOOLE SHIPBUILDING FOR F.T. EVERARD & SON, GREENHITHE, 1944 finished in natural wood and varnish - 72in. (183cm.) wide Although her keel was laid in 1939, Supremity was not launched until 1944. Remaining with Everards for twenty years, in 1964 she was sold to Kapa Shipping Enterprises, Greece, and then to the Karmiros Brothers, also in Greece. She was broken up at Skaramanga in October 1973. £1500-2000 | Nil |
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1600 |
| 152 | A BUILDER'S PLATING MODEL FOR THE SIDE FISHING TRAWLER D.B. FINN, BUILT BY GOOLE SHIPBUILDING FOR BOSTON DEEP FISHERIES, HULL, 1960 carved from laminated pine and finished in white with plating marks over - 50½in. (128.5cm.) The D.B. Finn ran aground off the coast of Iceland, 21st March, 1975 and was towed to Blythe for breaking that October. £1200-1500 | Nil |
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1000 |
| 153 | A BUILDER'S PLATING MODEL FOR A COASTER, GOOLE SHIPBUILDING, C.1960 unidentified, the laminated and carved hull finished in white with plating marks 50½in. (128.5cm.) £1000-1400 | Nil |
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| 154 | A WELL-PRESENTED 1:96 SCALE MODEL OF H.M.S. DREADNOUGHT [1906] modelled by C.A. Freeman, with carved and painted hull with planked decks with fittings and armament as appropriate, and mounted within a wood-bound glazed case with details plaque 15¼ x 30 x 6in. (39 x 76 x 15cm.) overall £500-800 | Nil |
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850 |
| 155 | A .3/16":1FT SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE ROYAL NAVY ADMIRAL'S BARGE FROM H.M.S. HOOD BY BASSETT-LOWKE with carved hull finished in Navy Blue, white and varnish with white ensign on bow, painted superstructure, brass funnel, name board on cabin, masts and rigging 2¼ x 9½in. (5.8 x 24cm.) overall Provenance: Commissioned by the vendor from Bassett-Lowke, 1974. £500-800 | Nil |
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450 |
| 156 | A WELL-PRESENTED 32':1" SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE FRUIT CARRIER ROSE, LATER ALSTERTOR, SUPPLY SHIP TO S.M.S. BISMARCK modelled by R.A. Wilson with carved and plated hull, planked decks with painted fittings and superstructure, set at anchor in a calm sea within plexi-glazed wooden case with plate Overall measurements - 5½ x 16¼ x 6¼in. (14 x 41 x 16cm.) Carry box; historical data Built in 1938 by the Dutch builders Oresundsvarvet A/B as a fruit carrier for Anders Jahre of Sandefjord, she had capacity for 150,000 cubic feet of fruit and accommodation for 12 passengers. Sold to Germany in 1939, she was promptly re-fitted as a supply ship for several German commerce raiders in the Atlantic. Spotted on 22nd June 1941, Alstertor was quickly surrounded by H.M. Destoyers Faulkner, Foresight, Forester, Fury and Foxhound of the 8th Destroyer Flotilla. Seeing escape was impossible, she set scuttling charges and the crew, along with 78 allied prisoners from the steamers Trafalgar and Rabaul, took to the boats which were rescued by the destroyers. £300-500 | Nil |
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250 |
| 157 | A DETAILED AND WELL-PRESENTED 32':1" SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE UNION-CASTLE MAIL STEAMSHIP BRAEMAR CASTLE [1898] modelled by R.A. Wilson with carved hull, planked decks with detailed fittings and superstructure, masts with full suit of lined paper sails all set and other details, set in an undulating moulded and painted seascape within plexi-glazed wooden case with plate Overall measurements - 7¼ x 22 x 7in. (18.5 x 56 x 18cm.) Carry box; historical notes Completed in July 1898 by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow for the Castle Line, Braemar Castle registered 6,266 gross tons and was 450ft long with a 52.2ft beam. The last single screw ship built for the company, she made a respectable 15 knots and had accommodation for 60-1st and 120-2nd class passengers. Transferred into the newly merged Union-Castle Line in 1900, she became a troopship in 1909 and a 421 bed hospital ship in 1915. Mined in 1916, she was repaired and was stationed at Murmansk during the Russian Civil War. During her time as a hospital ship, she carried an amazing 2,655,000 patients. She was sold for £17,500 for scrapping in 1924. £800-1200 | Nil |
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| 158 | A .3/16":1FT SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE BRITISH RAIL TUG MEECHING BY BASSETT-LOWKE with carved hull finished in British Rail livery, green decks with painted fittings, glazed bridge with BR insignia and water cannon over, mast and rigging Overall measurements 9¾ x 18½in. (25 x 47cm.) Provenance: Commissioned by the vendor from Bassett-Lowke, 1974. £1000-1500 | Nil |
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| 159 | AN UNUSUAL 20':1" SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF A TYPICAL EARLY 19TH-CENTURY PRISON HULK modelled by R.A. Wilson from his own researches and based on the York, with carved hull finished with sealed gunports, 'verdigris', 'rust' and 'flaking' paint, the deck housing with chimneys, reduced masts with a line of washing and other details, mounted on a dark green sea base attached to permanent moorings fore and aft, within plexi-glass wooden case with plate Overall measurements - 8 x 18½ x 8in. (20 x 47 x 20cm.) Carry box; historical data £400-600 | Nil |
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| 160 | A WOOD AND BONE PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE MODEL OF A 50-GUN SHIP modelled by D.C. Peers with copper-sheathed hull, ebony wales, planked and pinned bone hull above the waterline and decks and cut-away masts, mounted on a light wood display base 8 x 21 x 5in. (20 x 53.5 x 13cm.) overall. £800-1200 | Nil |
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700 |
| 161 | A RARE 19TH-CENTURY GLASS AND MICA WATERLINE MODEL OF A ROYAL NAVY FRIGATE with glass hull built up from strips, possibly paper-backed glass deck planks, painted wooden masts with glass standing and running rigging and two set mica sails, the others 'furled', set on a glass sea with glass panelled perimeter within a brass-bound glazed case with ebony base on bun feet Measurements overall 16½ x 22 x 8in. (42 x 56 x 20.5cm.) Very few of these models appear to have been made; it has been suggested that they were possibly glass-blowers' apprentice pieces, made to demonstrate that they were now competent to set up business in their own right. £500-800 | Nil |
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600 |
| 162 | A PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE MODEL OF A 54-GUN 4TH-RATE FRENCH SHIP with planked and pinned hull, brass guns, carved fittings, bound masts with yards and stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging, mounted to an early 19th-century Napoleonic French prisoner-of-war straw work base, secured to a wooden base with glass dome cover The model - 9 x 11in. (23 x 28cm.); the dome -- 14½ x 13in. (37 x 33cm.) £3000-5000 | Nil |
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| 163 | AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY PROBABLY DOCKYARD MODEL OF A TRINITY HOUSE CUTTER with planked and pinned hull, deck details including hinged access to companionways, gratings and deck lights, standing and running rigging with scale blocks, full suit of stitched linen sails, finished in black with a gold boot top and lacquer, mounted to a base within a glazed wooden case (later) The model - 26 x 26in. (66 x 66cm.), the case - 29 x 31 x 9in. (73.5 x 79 x 23cm.) £5000-8000 | Nil |
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4500 |
| 164 | A BUILDER'S MODEL OF THE M.V. IlLIRIA, BUILT FOR THE ADRIATICA LINE BY CANT. NAV. PELLEGRINO, 1962 with copper hull pierced with glazed portholes and finished in white, red and blue and fitted for internal illumination, scored wooden decks with painted fittings, superstructure and funnel finished in company livery and insignia, contained within a glazed teak case with brass corners and plaque Overall measurements - 18¾ x 50 x 13½in. (47.5 x 127 x 34.3cm.) Details of professional refurbishment undertaken to authentic specification in 1980. Later owned and operated by Galatours who renamed her Galapagos Discovery, on the 19th October 1999, she was docked at a pier in Panama awaiting completion of her engine repairs when a fire broke out in the engine room. Although fire fighting units responded ten minutes after they were notified, the fire ultimately destroyed the entire ship. £2000-3000 | Nil |
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2100 |
| 165 | A DETAILED MODEL OF THE PASSENGER-CARGO SHIP S.S. ATLANTIAN, ORIGINALLY BUILT FOR THE LEYLAND LINE BY THE CALEDONIAN SHIPBUlLDING Co. Ltd., 1928 with carved laminated hull finished in red below the waterline with black topsides, lined and painted decks, painted superstructure and fittings including stayed funnel in T. & J. Harrison company livery, mounted on turned brass columns to wooden display base with plaque and plexi-glass cover. Overall measurements - 13½ x 38½ x 8½in. (34 x 98 x 21.5cm.) Purchased and run by Harrisons from 1934 until 1951 when she was sold to a Japanese company and renamed Hakuzan Maru. £2000-3000 | Nil |
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2050 |
| 166 | A FINE MIRROR-BACKED BUILDER'S HALF MODEL OF THE GENERAL PURPOSE CARGO STEAM SHIP HOLBROOK, BUILT BY JOSEPH THOMPSON & SONS, SUNDERLAND, FOR THE CENTURY SHIPPING CO., 1917 AND MANAGED BY HARRIS & DIXON LTD the carved laminated hull finished in pink and grey with white superstructure, lined detail work and gold plated fittings, mounted on a front-silvered mirror within a glazed mahogany case with angled end mirrors and managers plates, complete with original mahogany stand The model - 23¼ x 99in. (59 x 251.5cm.); the stand - 38 x 100in. (96.5 x 254cm.) Launched on 17th July and completed in November 1917, the S.S. Holbrook was named after Lt. Norman Douglas Holbrook, R.N., VC, a friend of managing partner Frank Dixon, and the recipient of the first naval Victoria Cross in the Great War (he dived his submarine under five rows of mines and torpedoed the Turkish battleship Messudiyed). Registered at 6,668 tons and measuring 412.3 x 55.5 x 34.4 feet, she was powered by triple-expansion engines supplied by Blair & Co. capable of producing 600 n.h.p. In 1918 she was sold to the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. and in 1923 renamed Bredon and then Brandon. In 1928 she passed to the South Georgia S.S. Co. Ltd. and was steaming under their colours in ballast from Cardiff to Port Everglade when she was torpedoed on the 8th of December, 1939, 150 miles west of Lands End by U-48, with the loss of nine souls, Captain Richard Chisholm and 42 crew were saved. £4000-6000 | Nil |
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2500 |
| 167 | A FINE BUILDER'S MODEL OF THE CARGO SHIP TAUNTON, BUILT BY CRAIG, TAYLOR & Co. Ltd., STOCKTON ON TEES, FOR H. HARRISON (SHIPPING) Ltd., LONDON, 1924 The hull finished in pink and black with lined white superstructure and hatch covers with silvered fittings, mounted on four gilt-brass columns within original glazed mahogany case with ivorine plates; together with associated period stand. The model - 19 x 41½ x 12½in. (48.5 x 105.5 x 32cm.); the stand - 36 x 44 x 17in. (91.5 x 112 x 43cm.) Measuring 254' with a 36'9" beam and 17'0½" draft, Taunton was powered by a set of triple expansion engines made for her by the N.E. Marine Engine Co. Sold to the Waterloo Shipping Co. Ltd in 1933 and renamed Eastwood, she remained with this company until 1956 when she was bought by the Greek shipping company John S. Latsis and briefly named Andrew before changing to the Andreas Tsavliris, a name she retained until she was sold for breaking in Italy in December 1960. £10000-12000 | Nil |
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9000 |
