A BUILDER'S MIRROR-BACK MODEL FOR THE S.S. HAYTOR, BUILT FOR T. & C. WILTON & CO. LTD, BY JOHN CROWN & SONS LTD, SUNDERLAND, 1925

the laminated and carved hull with bilge keel, white painted propeller, black topsides with Plimsoll marks, lined boxwood decks with painted metal and wood fittings including anchors with studded chains and winches, deck rails, hose drums, cleats, companionways, covered hatches with lined covers, rigged masts with derricks and winches, ventilators, spare anchor, superstructure with open bridge with telegraph, binnacle and wheelhouse, stove pipe, stayed liveried funnel with ladder, engine room ventilators and lights, lifeboats in davits and other details, mounted on twin silvered baluster supports to front silvered mirror within original wooden case with angled end mirrors, ivorine plate and presentation plate to Clifford Wilton, Chairman, dated 1981 to front. Overall measurements -- 22½ x 69 x 10in. (57 x 175 x 25.5cm.); together with a set of annotated builder's blueprints for the ship, an album of Box Brownie photographs of the ship and deck scenes, a company account book for various cargoes and period photograph of Haytor upon completion in 1925; and quantity of Wilton photographs of S.S. Bovey Tracey

Provenance: Wilton's Steam Ship Company and thence by decent

This 1189 ton cargo ship was sunk by mine on the 26th July, 1940 in ballast between London and Blyth with the loss of Charles Douglas, Second Engineer.

Condition Report

paint possibly refreshed, ship's boats possibly later replacements or heavily refurbished originals, otherwise in good overall condition

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