£3,000 - £5,000
A BUILDER'S STYLE MODEL FOR THE S.S. BEATUS, BUILT BY ROPNER OF STOCKTON FOR TEMPUS SHIPPING CO. LTD., 1925
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.)
Beatus was torpedoed and sunk by U-46 on 18th October 1940 between Three Rivers to the Tyne carrying timber.
Fine overall condition.
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