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A FINE BUILDER'S MIRROR-BACK HALF MODEL FOR THE STEAM SHIPS DALCROSS; DALCROY; DALFRAM AND DALRYAN BUILT BY SCOTTS' SHIPBUILDING CO., GREENOCK FOR THE UNITED STEAM NAVIGATION CO. LTD., 1930
the laminated and carved hull with bilge keels and gold plated propeller and lowered boarding way, with lined boxwood lacquered decks and hatches, with silvered fittings, anchor with anchor winches, bitts, ventilators, rigged derricks with winches, lined bridge with navigation lights, covered boats in davits, stayed funnel with company insignia, water tanks, engine room lights, spare propeller, and other details, mounted on a back-silvered mirror with presentation plate from Campbell's (Newcastle) Ltd, with glazed display case with angled bow and stern mirrors and ivorine builder's plate, overall measurements - 19½ x 64½in. (49.5 x 164cm.)
£2500-3500
Dalcross: wrecked off Elephant Point, Somalia 1964
Dalcroy: torpedoed by U-402, 2nd November 1942
Dalfram: torpedoed by U-181, 4th August 1943
Dalryan: mined 1st December 1939
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A MIRROR-BACK BUILDER'S MODEL OF THE CARGO VESSEL S.S. KNOTTINGLEY BUILT BY JOHN CROWN AND SONS LTD, 1907
the carved hull with gilt-plated fittings and superstructure as appropriate, finished in pink, grey and lacquer, with bilge keel, portholes, propeller and rudder, mounted on original front-silvered mirror (crack lower right) with side mirrors, within mahogany bound glass fronted display case with ivorine builder's plate to centre - 20½ x 70in. (53 x 178cm.)
£2500-3500
The steel screw cargo steamer Knottingley was built by John Crown & Sons Ltd at Sunderland and completed in June 1907. Ordered for the Wetherall Steamship Company, she was surveyed and registered at Goole at 824 tons gross (417 net) and measured 195 feet in length with a 32½ft beam. Powered by a triple-expansion 3-cylinder engine made by the North Eastern Marine Engineering Co., also of Sunderland, she gave her first owners nine years' reliable service before being sold to the Cambo Shipping Co. of Cardiff in 1916. Resold to Davidson's of Aberdeen in 1922, she was sold yet again the following year to the Antwerp Shipping & Bunkering Co. who renamed her Brabo. In 1926, her Belgian owners sold her to the Brabo Steamship Co. of Goole - perhaps an associated company - and she was renamed Lulonga. The next year (1927), her owners changed their name to the Hook Steamship Co. and whilst still sailing under their colours, she was torpedoed and sunk by a German E-boat 15 miles south of Shoreham on 26th July, 1940 whilst on passage from Goole to Shoreham in ballast; fortunately only one crew member lost his life
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† A BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE SUEZ CANAL RADIAL CUTTER SUCTION DREDGER KADRUKA BUILT BY WILLIAM SIMONS & CO. LTD, RENFREW, FOR THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT, 1930
the laminated and carved hull with light grey lined hull and decks with silver-plated fittings as appropriate including crane, gantries, cutting gear, retractable pontoons, the stern with stayed funnel, ventilators and crew accommodation, mounted on three ebonised baluster stands within original glazed mahogany display case with ivorine plates for builders, owners and consulting engineers, and stand. Measurements including stand - 65 x 65 x 22in. (165 x 165 x 56cm.)
£4000-6000
This model will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
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† A BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE DIPPER DREDGE LUCAYAN, BUILT BY ORDER OF THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BAHAMAS BY LOBNITZ & CO., RENFREW, 1923
the laminated and carved hull with lined white decks, silvered and oxidised fittings as appropriate, covered upper deck with stayed funnel and ventilators, lined superstructure and other details, mounted on its three retractable feet within original glazed display case with ivorine plates for builder, owner and consulting engineers - 27 x 47 x 17in. (68.5 x 119.5 x 43cm.)
£2500-3500
Lucayan seems to have remained in the Bahamas until 1952 when she went to the Netherlands and worked until 1957, then returned to England where her final owner, the Westminster Dredger Co. Ltd, used her until 1978.
This model will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
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A FINE BUILDER'S MIRROR-BACK HALF MODEL FOR THE STEAM YACHT MINGARY, DESIGNED BY G.L. WATSON AND BUILT BY THE AILSA SHIP BUILDING CO., TROON, 1899
the carved laminated hull with varnished and white decks and gold- and silver-plated deck fittings with details including carved female figurehead, fairleads and bollards, ventilators, steam anchor winch, anchor davits, deck rails, companionways, superstructure with wood-capped deck rails, wheelhouse and open bridge over, with binnacle and engine room telegraphs and wheel, engine room lights, shelter and promenade deck over cabin accommodation with port holes, window and doors, aft steering position and capstan, three ship's boats in davits with bottom boards, thwarts and gratings, mounted within original glazed case with front-silvered mirror and ivorine builder's plate (case lacking finials) - 16½ x 64½in. (42 x 164cm.)
£10000-15000
Built for Charles D. Rudd, Mingary measured 187½ x 27ft with a near 15ft draught. An attractive vessel as one might expect from Watson's, she was launched in May 1899 and delivered that August. Fitted with twin raked masts, her triple expansion engine was supplied by Dunsmuir & Jackson of Glasgow which developed 123nhp giving a respectable 13 knots from a single screw. Hired by the Royal Navy in 1915, she was armed with single 13-pdr and 6-pdr guns and served in the auxiliary patrol service, being used after the Battle of Jutland to sweep for survivors. It was during this service she was badly holed and limped to Rosyth harbour where she sank at her moorings. Raised in March 1919 she was sold to the Egypt & Levant S.S. Co. who converted her for commercial service. Sold again in 1924 to Turkish owners who renamed her Sevintch, she was sunk on the 26th December 1927 in a collision with the S.S. Marmara off Boz Burnu.
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A BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE DRIFTERS S.S. CORTEEN & CAMLOUGH FOR JOHN KELLY LTD, BELFAST BY W. SIMONS & CO. LTD, RENFREW, 1920
the laminated and carved hull with wooded wales, white decks with lining, silvered fittings including anchor bitts, deck rails, ventilators, winches, etc., covered hatches, superstructure with open bridge complete with helm, binnacle telegraph and lamps, stayed funnel, three fitted lifeboats in davits and other details, mounted on a raised display plinth with ivorine plate within ebonised and gilt glazed display case, overall - 32½ x 60 x 23in. (82.5 x 152.5 x 58.5cm.)
£3000-5000
This pair of coasters registered 530 tons, were 167ft long with a 26½ft beam. Their single-screw triple expansion engines delivered 9kts and, for many years, they were the typical of the sort of small working ships that made short excursions with mixed cargoes around Ireland. Corteen was renamed Ballyclare in 1951 and was broken by Wards in 1959; The Camlough was less fortunate and was wrecked in 1932 off Luce Bay, Monreith whilst under tow with general cargo between Belfast and Birkenhead - her wreck is still visible when the tide is out.
This model will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
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A FINE BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE S.S. CLAN MALCOLM, BUILT BY CRAIG, TAYLOR & CO., STOCKTON, FOR CLAN LINE, 1917
the laminated carved hull with bilge keels, gilt propeller, grey decks with lined white hatch covers and superstructure with detailed silvered metal fittings including winches, ventilators, anchors, davits, water tanks etc., masts rigged with derricks, liveried funnel and other details, mounted on four silvered supports within glazed wooden case with dual ivorine plates, attached to display stand, measurements including stand - 60 x 88 x 19in. (152.5 x 223.5 x 48cm.)
£6000-8000
A large cargo ship registered at just under 6000 tons, the Clan Malcolm was completed in April 1917 and managed to survive the unrestricted submarine warfare by then in force by Germany for the last eighteen months or so of the Great War. She was wrecked, however, on passage from London to the Clyde on 25th September 1935 when she struck the Tregwin Rocks, Cornwall, in thick fog with about 3,500 tons of maize and maize products aboard - the companionway to her wheel house was salvaged and is used for a local building
This model will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
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