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102. AN 8-DAY SHIP’S CLOCK FROM H.M.S. AMETHYST (1943)


the 7in. enamel dial signed Smiths, Cricklewood, slow/fast lever under ‘XII’, black steel hands with red sweep seconds, winding arbor to going-barrel movement stamped and numbered ‘Astral 156’ on the back plate, contained within typical brass bulkhead case now secured to teak board with brass plate inscribed H.M.S. AMYTHEST [sic] -- 11½in. (29cm.) square; together with a copy of Amethyst’s badge on wooden mount


Broken up by Demmelweek & Redding, Plymouth in 1956, this clock is understood to have remained locally until recently - the teak board and misspelled brass plate both point to dockyard/sailor-type work. Amethyst was made famous during the ‘Yangtse Incident’ of April-July 1949 when, having been grounded with casualties under sustained fire from Chinese communists, she was able to re-float and follow a pilot through the shallows to safety, culminating with the full-speed ramming of a restrictive boom at the river’s mouth and the now-famous signal Have rejoined the fleet off Woosung. God save the King! The episode was celebrated in the 1957 film The Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst.


(2) £400-600


103. A MODEL CANON, CIRCA 1860


constructed in brass with 8in. three-stage tapering barrel with touch hole, cascabel and trunnions, secured with iron staples to substantial stepped oak base with sliding elevation wedge. Overall measurements -- 4½ x 11in. (11.5 x 28cm.)


£150-250 104.


A MODEL OF A 19TH-CENTURY-STYLE BRASS NAVAL GUN


with an 11in. tapering five-stage barrel secured to stepped wooden carriage with brass trucks -- 5 x 13in. (13 x 33cm.) overall £200-300


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