A WELL-PRESENTED 1:192 SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE LIBERTY...

Hammer

£550

A WELL-PRESENTED 1:192 SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE LIBERTY SHIP S.S. RICHARD MONTGOMERY [1943]

with 26in. laminated and carved hull finished in grey with fittings as appropriate including, quick-firing guns, anti-aircraft guns, covered hatches, masts with derricks, covered and fitted lifeboats, signal mast with flags, ventilators, winches and other details, depicted underway on a moulded and painted sea, with brass plate and perspex cover -- 7 x 38 x 8in. (18 x 96.5 x 20cm.)

A liberty ship of nearly 11,000 tons, the Richard Montgomery was laid down at the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida on the 15th March 1943, launched exactly twelve weeks later on 15th June and was completed by the end of July. In August 1944 she was loaded with 6,127 tons of munitions for the Allied war effort and sent to Sheerness, Kent where she was assigned an anchorage off the Nore on 20th August. She dragged anchor however and was stranded over a sand bar. When the tide went out she broke her back and became a total loss. Too dangerous to attempt salvage, her wreck, complete with contents, is still visible.

Fine overall condition.