[Z] A FINE MIRROR-BACK BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE S.S. 'EZARDIAN' BY WILLIAM PICKERSGILL & SONS LTD, SUNDERLAND FOR THE GOOLE & WEST RIDING S.S. CO. LTD, CIRCA 1909

A FINE MIRROR-BACK BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE S.S. EZARDIAN BY WILLIAM PICKERSGILL & SONS LTD, SUNDERLAND FOR THE GOOLE & WEST RIDING S.S. CO. LTD, CIRCA 1909

the laminated hull carved and finished with ebonised topsides, brass bilge keel, gilt propeller, lined and lacquered boxwood desk with gilt-plated fittings as appropriate including anchors with studded chains, winches, ventilators, bitts, fairleads, hose drums, companionways, raised covered cargo hatches with red painted sides and buttresses, cutaway masts, open bridge with binnacle, helm, telegraphs, awning stanchions, green starboard lanterns, line to superstructure, lifeboat rigged in davits, cutaway funnel with safety valve extension pipe and much other fine detail, mounted on back-silvered mirror within original display case with angled end mirrors and ivorine builder's plate -- 18 x 67in. (46 x 170cm.)

Built by Wm Pickersgill & Sons Ltd, Sunderland in 1909 for the Goole & West Riding Steam Sg Co Ltd, the S.S. Ezardian was, at 875 tons, a relatively small ocean tramp and plied a general trade along the east coast of the UK at a steady 10½ knots. Sold to the Steven Line in 1917, her horizons expanded to European waters and it was off Vlissingen she collided with the Holland-America steamer Zuiderdijk on the 2^nd September 1922 whilst carrying steel bars between Antwerp and Stockholm, seven men were lost.