10th May, 2016 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Courageous')
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[M] A BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE PASSENGER/CARGO...
A BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE PASSENGER/CARGO SHIPS S.S. SURINAME AND SARAMACCA, BUILT BY THE NEDERLANDSCHE SCHEEPSBOUW MAATIJ, AMSTERDAM, FOR THE KONINKLIJKE WEST INDISCHE MAILDIENST, 1908
the carved hull finished in red, pink and grey, lined white decks with painted fittings, lacquered hatch covers, awning stanchions overall, four lifeboats in davits, masts and rigging (some loose rigging and wear to hull paint), mounted on a plush-lined board with maker's plate and glazed case (later). Overall measurements -- 30 x 93½ x 16in. (76 x 97½ x 40½cm.)
Suriname and Saramacca were an almost identical pair of single-screw passenger-cargo steamers built by Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij at Amsterdam in 1908. Ordered for the West Indian services of the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company, Suriname was registered at 3,275 tons gross (2,103 net) and Saramacca slightly more at 3,284 tons gross (2,110 net). Each vessel measured 336½ feet in length with a 42 foot beam and was powered by a triple-expansion 3-cylinder engine capable of 13 knots. After five years in service, both ships were sold to the British-owned Tropical Fruit Company in 1913 and re-registered in Belize. Both survived the Great War and, in the early 1920s, passed into American ownership as part of the fleet of United Fruit of New York. Still trading in the mid-1930s, neither ship is listed by 1939 suggesting both had been scrapped during the shipping slump which preceded World War II.
This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
the carved hull finished in red, pink and grey, lined white decks with painted fittings, lacquered hatch covers, awning stanchions overall, four lifeboats in davits, masts and rigging (some loose rigging and wear to hull paint), mounted on a plush-lined board with maker's plate and glazed case (later). Overall measurements -- 30 x 93½ x 16in. (76 x 97½ x 40½cm.)
Suriname and Saramacca were an almost identical pair of single-screw passenger-cargo steamers built by Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij at Amsterdam in 1908. Ordered for the West Indian services of the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company, Suriname was registered at 3,275 tons gross (2,103 net) and Saramacca slightly more at 3,284 tons gross (2,110 net). Each vessel measured 336½ feet in length with a 42 foot beam and was powered by a triple-expansion 3-cylinder engine capable of 13 knots. After five years in service, both ships were sold to the British-owned Tropical Fruit Company in 1913 and re-registered in Belize. Both survived the Great War and, in the early 1920s, passed into American ownership as part of the fleet of United Fruit of New York. Still trading in the mid-1930s, neither ship is listed by 1939 suggesting both had been scrapped during the shipping slump which preceded World War II.
This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
Sold for £5,952
Estimated at £4,000 - £6,000
(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)
A BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE PASSENGER/CARGO SHIPS S.S. SURINAME AND SARAMACCA, BUILT BY THE NEDERLANDSCHE SCHEEPSBOUW MAATIJ, AMSTERDAM, FOR THE KONINKLIJKE WEST INDISCHE MAILDIENST, 1908
the carved hull finished in red, pink and grey, lined white decks with painted fittings, lacquered hatch covers, awning stanchions overall, four lifeboats in davits, masts and rigging (some loose rigging and wear to hull paint), mounted on a plush-lined board with maker's plate and glazed case (later). Overall measurements -- 30 x 93½ x 16in. (76 x 97½ x 40½cm.)
Suriname and Saramacca were an almost identical pair of single-screw passenger-cargo steamers built by Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij at Amsterdam in 1908. Ordered for the West Indian services of the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company, Suriname was registered at 3,275 tons gross (2,103 net) and Saramacca slightly more at 3,284 tons gross (2,110 net). Each vessel measured 336½ feet in length with a 42 foot beam and was powered by a triple-expansion 3-cylinder engine capable of 13 knots. After five years in service, both ships were sold to the British-owned Tropical Fruit Company in 1913 and re-registered in Belize. Both survived the Great War and, in the early 1920s, passed into American ownership as part of the fleet of United Fruit of New York. Still trading in the mid-1930s, neither ship is listed by 1939 suggesting both had been scrapped during the shipping slump which preceded World War II.
This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
the carved hull finished in red, pink and grey, lined white decks with painted fittings, lacquered hatch covers, awning stanchions overall, four lifeboats in davits, masts and rigging (some loose rigging and wear to hull paint), mounted on a plush-lined board with maker's plate and glazed case (later). Overall measurements -- 30 x 93½ x 16in. (76 x 97½ x 40½cm.)
Suriname and Saramacca were an almost identical pair of single-screw passenger-cargo steamers built by Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij at Amsterdam in 1908. Ordered for the West Indian services of the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company, Suriname was registered at 3,275 tons gross (2,103 net) and Saramacca slightly more at 3,284 tons gross (2,110 net). Each vessel measured 336½ feet in length with a 42 foot beam and was powered by a triple-expansion 3-cylinder engine capable of 13 knots. After five years in service, both ships were sold to the British-owned Tropical Fruit Company in 1913 and re-registered in Belize. Both survived the Great War and, in the early 1920s, passed into American ownership as part of the fleet of United Fruit of New York. Still trading in the mid-1930s, neither ship is listed by 1939 suggesting both had been scrapped during the shipping slump which preceded World War II.
This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Courageous'), 10th May, 2016
