£2,600
A BUILDER'S-STYLE MODEL FOR THE S.S. SPRINGWELL, BUILT BY WOOD SKINNER, BILL QUAY, 1914
the 50in. laminated and carved hull with lowered companionways, brass portholes, four-bladed propeller, lined wooden decks with moulded and painted fittings including anchors with chains and winches, deck rails, companionways, ventilators, covered hatches, masts rigged with derricks and radio aerial, hosepipes, raised superstructure with glazed bridge with twin binnacles, navigating lamps, stayed funnel, fitted ship's boats in davits, engine room lights, masts with derricks and radio aerial and other details, mounted on brass columns to wooden display base, overall measurements -- 23 x 60 x 14½in. (58.5 x 152.5 x 37cm.)
Registered at some 5,500 tons, Springwell was completed in May 1914 and was torpedoed by U-38 twenty-one months later on 9th February 1916 carrying general cargo to Calcutta.
Fine overall condition
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