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AN ATTRACTIVE 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH DIORAMA QUAYSIDE SCENE
depicting a waterline brigantine unloading casks on a fortified quayside scene with crew and other characters observing, the model carved from the solid with protruding gun barrels, deck details including tiller, saloon light, companionway, open gratings, casks and capstan etc., with bound masts, furled sails, standing and running rigging, mounted on a moulded waterline scene base within period glazed case with moulded top. Overall measurements -- 30½ x 36½ x 19in. (77.5 x 93 x 48cm.)
£700-900 268.
A SCALE MODEL OF A MEDITERRANEAN FISHING BOAT
the carved hull with planked deck complete with detailed fittings including bitts, anchor, companionway, capstan, fishing equipment and dinghy stowed on frame between lateen-rigged masts with stitched linen sails, loosely contained within glazed case. Overall measurements -- 16 x 22 x 7in. (40.5 x 56 x 18cm.)
£100-150
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A WELL-PRESENTED AND DETAILED 1:96 SCALE WOOD AND METAL MODEL FOR THE PADDLE STEAMER SIRIUS, THE FIRST STEAM-POWERED VESSEL TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC IN 1838
modelled by A.E. Walker with 24in. laminated and carved hull, pierced gilt headrails, carved hound figurehead, paddle boxes with steps and metal paddles, planked deck with fittings including windlass, companionways, side saloons, raised walkway, tall white stayed funnel with safety valve extension pipe, deck lights, two covered boats in davits, binnacle and helm, two masts with standing and running rigging, mounted on wooden display case with legend and Plexiglas cover. Overall measurements -- 20 x 36 x 10in. (51 x 91.5 x 25.5cm.)
Despite being a small wooden paddle-steamer of no apparent significance, the humble little Sirius has assumed a notable place in maritime history as the first vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean under sustained steam power. Built for the St. George [later City of Cork] Steam Packet Company by Robert Menzies and Son at Leith in 1837, she was mundanely plying her trade between London and Cork when she was unexpectedly chartered by the British and American Steam Navigation Company. Their own contender for the trans-Atlantic run intended to beat Brunel’s Great Western was the new British Queen but she had been delayed by the bankruptcy of her engine builder and the company was desperate for a substitute. Under the command of Lieutenant Richard Roberts, R.N., Sirius left London on 28th March 1838 and, after coaling at Cork, sailed for New York on the 4th April carrying 40 passengers, 450 tons of coal, and 58 casks of resin. After an eventful voyage of eighteen days and ten hours, during which not only all the coal and resin but also most of her cabin furniture, spare yards, and even one of her masts had been used to keep her boilers fired up, she arrived in New York to universal acclaim. Even though her average speed was only 6.7 knots and Great Western’s was two knots faster, when she docked the very next day nothing could detract from Sirius’s achievement and she returned to her former employment with an enviable reputation which endured long after she was wrecked in Ballycotton Bay in January 1947 with the loss of twenty lives.
£600-800
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