AN OPEN-FRAMED MODEL BELIEVED TO BE FOR THE BRIG ARETHUSA, M...

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£1,600

AN OPEN-FRAMED MODEL BELIEVED TO BE FOR THE BRIG ARETHUSA, MADE FOR AN ADMIRALTY COURT OF ENQUIRY, CIRCA 1854

modelled in stained yellow pine, with open port and framed starboard side with bulwark, removable deck with hatch covers, mounted on a wooden display base, overall measurements -- 11¼ x 37 x 9½in. (28.5 x 94 x 24cm.) together with historical note

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The wooden brig Arethusa, 176 tons gross, was built in Aberdeen in 1839 and owned by Newman & Co. of Blyth. On 4^th January 1854, whilst on passage from Blyth (her home port) to Honfleur, northern France, in ballast and under the command of Captain J. Wood, she was wrecked on Tynemouth Rocks in a Force 6 gale following a collision with the Mary offshore. See Admiralty Wreck Return 1854, p. 7(367).

Some minor rubbing to elements. Deck worn and no longer pegs down to sheer of vessel. Deck split between bow and first hatch. Internal dust.