AN ATTRACTIVE HALF-BLOCK BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE IRON PASSENGER PADDLE STEAMER GIRONDE ET GARONNE, BUILT FOR CIE MARITIME GIRONDE ET GARONNE, BORDEAUX BY HUGH MCINTYRE & CO., PAISLEY, 1880

carved from ¼in. laminated yellow pine with ebonised topsides, lined paddle box inscribed GIRONDE ET GARRONNE No.2, cut-away raked twin funnels and mast, mounted on a contrasting wood waterline display board with ivorine yard number '59' to centre -- 9 x 59in. (23 x 150cm.)

A passenger ferry of 237 tons measuring 203.2ft with a 20.5 breadth and draft of 8.4ft, her engines were built by Hutson & Corbett of Glasgow and could develop a healthly 90bhp. She served on the eponymous rivers her name suggests, but no record of her fate has been found to date.