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A LATE 19TH-CENTURY EMERGENCY DOCKING HELM RECOVERED FROM THE WRECK OF THE WHITE STAR S.S. AFRIC (1899-1917)
heavily constructed in brass and in cleaned, conserved and working condition, the top plate inscribed PORT/STAR.d with indicator connected to eliptical drive gear to helm hub -- 34½in. (87.5cm.) high; together with two portholes recovered from the same wreck, cleaned and polished, one impressed with maker’s mark for ‘Roby’ with hinged cover and retaining original, now shattered and opaque, glass, each now fitted with mirror -- 21in. (53.5cm.) diameter; and a postcard sent from Afric
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The S.S. Afric was a passenger/cargo ship of nearly 12,000 tons built for the White Star Line in 1899 by Harland & Wolff. Designed specifically for the Australian service with four sisters (Medic; Persic; Runic and Suevic) they had impressive cargo capacity including refrigerated space for 100,000 carcasses and could cruise at 13.5 knots. Afric was torpedoed on the 12th February 1917 twelve miles s.s.w. of the Eddystone lighthouse. Five were killed outright, seventeen drowned and 145, including the Captain, survived. Title has been granted to the vendor by the Receiver of Wreck, Droit No. A/2458.
£800-1200
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138.
A COMPASS AND BINNACLE BY HENRY BROWNE & SON, LONDON
the 6½in. compass card signed with ‘Sestrel’ trademark and numbered ‘1800N’, mounted within double-glazed (top and bottom) liquid-filled bowl within counter-signed and numbered gimbals further stamped ‘deadbeat compass’, contained within wooden binnacle with maker’s plates, red/green Kelvin spheres, access hatch to interior components, Flinder’s bar and brass hood with hinged ports, overall -- 56in. (142.3cm.) high
£400-600 139.
A BRASS BRIDGE TELEGRAPH BY DURKEE MARINE, NEW YORK
of typical form with (?)rexine white instruction plates and internal gong -- 49½in. (126cm.) including vertical handle £250-400
140. A LATE 19TH-CENTURY PORT NAVIGATION LAMP
of typical form, with maker’s plate for Wm Harvie, Glasgow, stamped with repeat marks dated for 1898 and with additional stamps ‘GWR’, complete with original burner on sliding tray -- 21½in. (54.5cm.) high
£100-150 additional images online at
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