21st Oct, 2009 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Victory)
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[M] A 1:60 SCALE STATIC DISPLAY MODEL OF THE 8-GUN...
A 1:60 SCALE STATIC DISPLAY MODEL OF THE 8-GUN BRIG SLOOP SCYLLA (1809)
modelled by D. Berrill with a carved hull, planked decks with wooden fittings and metal guns, finished with Venetian red bulwarks and carriages, masts with standing and running rigging, mounted on a wooden base with plaque, within a plexi-glass case, overall measurements - 26 x 35½ x 12in. (66 x 90 x 30.5cm.)
Named for a monster inhabiting a rock in the Straights of Messina who devoured victims in the whirlpool of Charybdis, Scylla was a 'Cruizer Class' brig sloop built by Robert Davy of Topsham in 1809. Commissioned in September that year under the command of Arthur Atchinson, she took the 11-gun Le Canonnier of Îsle de Batz in May 1811. In the hostilities with America, she took (with Pheasant and Whiting) the U.S. Privateer Fox on 6th May 1813, and in September that year in company with Royalist took the 40-gun Le Weser. After the wars, she had a period laying up before a busy career in the Mediterranean, North America and the West Indies. She was finally broken up at Plymouth in January 1846.
modelled by D. Berrill with a carved hull, planked decks with wooden fittings and metal guns, finished with Venetian red bulwarks and carriages, masts with standing and running rigging, mounted on a wooden base with plaque, within a plexi-glass case, overall measurements - 26 x 35½ x 12in. (66 x 90 x 30.5cm.)
Named for a monster inhabiting a rock in the Straights of Messina who devoured victims in the whirlpool of Charybdis, Scylla was a 'Cruizer Class' brig sloop built by Robert Davy of Topsham in 1809. Commissioned in September that year under the command of Arthur Atchinson, she took the 11-gun Le Canonnier of Îsle de Batz in May 1811. In the hostilities with America, she took (with Pheasant and Whiting) the U.S. Privateer Fox on 6th May 1813, and in September that year in company with Royalist took the 40-gun Le Weser. After the wars, she had a period laying up before a busy career in the Mediterranean, North America and the West Indies. She was finally broken up at Plymouth in January 1846.
Sold for £248
Estimated at £400 - £600
(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)
A 1:60 SCALE STATIC DISPLAY MODEL OF THE 8-GUN BRIG SLOOP SCYLLA (1809)
modelled by D. Berrill with a carved hull, planked decks with wooden fittings and metal guns, finished with Venetian red bulwarks and carriages, masts with standing and running rigging, mounted on a wooden base with plaque, within a plexi-glass case, overall measurements - 26 x 35½ x 12in. (66 x 90 x 30.5cm.)
Named for a monster inhabiting a rock in the Straights of Messina who devoured victims in the whirlpool of Charybdis, Scylla was a 'Cruizer Class' brig sloop built by Robert Davy of Topsham in 1809. Commissioned in September that year under the command of Arthur Atchinson, she took the 11-gun Le Canonnier of Îsle de Batz in May 1811. In the hostilities with America, she took (with Pheasant and Whiting) the U.S. Privateer Fox on 6th May 1813, and in September that year in company with Royalist took the 40-gun Le Weser. After the wars, she had a period laying up before a busy career in the Mediterranean, North America and the West Indies. She was finally broken up at Plymouth in January 1846.
modelled by D. Berrill with a carved hull, planked decks with wooden fittings and metal guns, finished with Venetian red bulwarks and carriages, masts with standing and running rigging, mounted on a wooden base with plaque, within a plexi-glass case, overall measurements - 26 x 35½ x 12in. (66 x 90 x 30.5cm.)
Named for a monster inhabiting a rock in the Straights of Messina who devoured victims in the whirlpool of Charybdis, Scylla was a 'Cruizer Class' brig sloop built by Robert Davy of Topsham in 1809. Commissioned in September that year under the command of Arthur Atchinson, she took the 11-gun Le Canonnier of Îsle de Batz in May 1811. In the hostilities with America, she took (with Pheasant and Whiting) the U.S. Privateer Fox on 6th May 1813, and in September that year in company with Royalist took the 40-gun Le Weser. After the wars, she had a period laying up before a busy career in the Mediterranean, North America and the West Indies. She was finally broken up at Plymouth in January 1846.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Victory), 21st Oct, 2009
