7th Nov, 2017 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Fearless')
76A
[M] THE BELL FROM H.M. SUBMARINE THOROUGH,...
cast in brass with red-filled lettering inscribed H.M.S. THOROUGH. 1944. around waist, with red painted interior and complete with clapper and sally, and suspended from wooden stand surmounted with painted alloy badge from Thorough. The bell -- 7 x 8in. (18 x 20.5cm.); the stand -- 33 x 17in. (84 x 43cm.)
(2)
Provenance: Stanley William 'Chimp' Clayden DSC, R.N. (1920-75) and thence by descent.
Built by Vickers Armstrong of Barrow, Thorough was the one of the third batch of 'T' Class submarines to be built and the only R.N. vessel to bear this name to date. Launched on 30th October 1943, she displaced 1,560 tons (submerged), was 276ft long and was commissioned in March 1944. She served in the Far East for much of her wartime career where she plagued the Japanese, sinking twenty-seven Japanese sailing vessels, seven coasters, a small Japanese vessel, a Japanese barge, a small Japanese gunboat, a Japanese trawler, and the Malaysian sailing vessel Palange. In August 1945, in company with H.M.S. Taciturn, she attacked Japanese shipping and shore targets off northern Bali where Thorough sank a Japanese coaster and a sailing vessel with gunfire. On 16 December 1957 Thorough returned to H.M.S. Dolphin, Portsmouth Dockyard, after first circumnavigation by a submarine, and was scrapped at Dunston on Tyne on 29 June 1962.
Sold for £1,488
Estimated at £1,000 - £1,500
(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)
Condition Report
Good overall condition commensurate with age
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cast in brass with red-filled lettering inscribed H.M.S. THOROUGH. 1944. around waist, with red painted interior and complete with clapper and sally, and suspended from wooden stand surmounted with painted alloy badge from Thorough. The bell -- 7 x 8in. (18 x 20.5cm.); the stand -- 33 x 17in. (84 x 43cm.)
(2)
Provenance: Stanley William 'Chimp' Clayden DSC, R.N. (1920-75) and thence by descent.
Built by Vickers Armstrong of Barrow, Thorough was the one of the third batch of 'T' Class submarines to be built and the only R.N. vessel to bear this name to date. Launched on 30th October 1943, she displaced 1,560 tons (submerged), was 276ft long and was commissioned in March 1944. She served in the Far East for much of her wartime career where she plagued the Japanese, sinking twenty-seven Japanese sailing vessels, seven coasters, a small Japanese vessel, a Japanese barge, a small Japanese gunboat, a Japanese trawler, and the Malaysian sailing vessel Palange. In August 1945, in company with H.M.S. Taciturn, she attacked Japanese shipping and shore targets off northern Bali where Thorough sank a Japanese coaster and a sailing vessel with gunfire. On 16 December 1957 Thorough returned to H.M.S. Dolphin, Portsmouth Dockyard, after first circumnavigation by a submarine, and was scrapped at Dunston on Tyne on 29 June 1962.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Fearless'), 7th Nov, 2017
