A 1:48 scale builder's model of the collier S.S. Sir Johnstone Wright built for the central electricity authority by william pickersgill & sons ltd, sunderland, 1955
by the Sunderland Model Making Co., carved hull finished in two-tone red and black, black painted cargo decks with lined superstructure and fittings including deck rails, winches, ventilators, covered hatches, over bridge with binnacle, range finder, water tanks, superstructure with liveried funnel, lifeboats in davits, emergency steering over propeller and other details, mounted on four silver columns with original mahogany display case with ivorine plates, on associated table stand, cased model measurements -- 18 x 50 x 14in. (46 x 127 x 35.5cm.); table 30in (77cm) high; together with a watercolour of the Sir Johnstone Wright, signed 'John Mortimer' (lower right), framed size -- 20in x 24½in (51 x 62cm.); and a leather photograph album showing the launch of the Sir Johnstone Wright and the presentation of the model to Gordon Blain, retiring Fuel Supplies Officer.
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Named in honour of Sir Johnstone Wright (1883-1953), chairman of the Central Electricity Board and president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the collier S.S. Sir Johnstone Wright was launched on the 18th August, 1955 for the express purpose of shipping coal from the North East of England to power stations in the South at the behest of the fuel supplies officer, Gordon Blain. In the year he retired (1976), she was sold and renamed Fanis by Christincoast Cia Naviera SA, of Piraeus, Greece before being broken up at Aspropyrgos in 1984.

Provenance: Gordon Blain and thence by descent.

This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road

Condition Report
Fine overall condition.

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