A FINE BUILDER'S WATERLINE MODEL FOR THE M.V. CHULMLEIGH BUI...

Hammer

£5,500

A FINE BUILDER'S WATERLINE MODEL FOR THE M.V. CHULMLEIGH BUILT FOR THE ATLANTIC SHIPPING & TRADING CO. (TATEM SHIPPING LTD) BY WILLIAM DOXFORD & SONS, SUNDERLAND, 1946

the 55in. laminated and carved hull with lined and lacquered boxwood decks, complete with gold plated fittings as appropriate, including winches, bits, ventilators, deck rails etc., superstructure with helm binnacle, telegraphs and range finder, rigged derricks, stayed funnel with Tatem insignia, engine room lights, four fitted lifeboats in davits and other details, mounted on a moulded and painted seascape within original glazed case with ivorine plates – 18 x 63 x 14in. (46 x 160 x 35.5cm.); together with an associated later stand -- 48in. (122cm.) high

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Launched as Empire Northfleet, she was renamed Chulmleigh (after the village where James Tatem, founder of the firm, was born in 1868) almost immediately and worked for Tatem Shipping until 1961 when sold and renamed Rugeley. In 1964 she was about to be renamed Madura but was wrecked by a typhoon at Lanto near Hong Kong on the 28th May. She was raised and broken up at Hong Kong that August.

Fine original condition throughout, minor wear to case varnish.