Details
A well detailed brass, wood and metal live steam spirit fired radio controlled model of the whaling ship No7 built by R C Jackson -- 300 x 57in (76 x 144.5cm)
With masts, crow's nest and rigging and deck details including harpoon gun, telegraph and phone box, deck rails, davits, companionways, bollards, deck winch, superstructure with bridge and open bridge over with helm, telegraph and binnacle, ventilators, engine room lights, two life boats and aft steering position. The hull, finished in red black and white with matt varnished decks, built up of overlapping brass plates is fitted with a horizontal brass clad copper cross tube boiler with normal fittings and lagged steam line to twin vertical cylinder engine built from Whitney castings with trunk type crosshead guides and counterbalanced crankshaft with gear and eccentric driven lubricator and two boiler feed pumps, disc flywheel, single shaft and three blade propellor. Additional equipment includes radio control, stand and perspex cover.
With masts, crow's nest and rigging and deck details including harpoon gun, telegraph and phone box, deck rails, davits, companionways, bollards, deck winch, superstructure with bridge and open bridge over with helm, telegraph and binnacle, ventilators, engine room lights, two life boats and aft steering position. The hull, finished in red black and white with matt varnished decks, built up of overlapping brass plates is fitted with a horizontal brass clad copper cross tube boiler with normal fittings and lagged steam line to twin vertical cylinder engine built from Whitney castings with trunk type crosshead guides and counterbalanced crankshaft with gear and eccentric driven lubricator and two boiler feed pumps, disc flywheel, single shaft and three blade propellor. Additional equipment includes radio control, stand and perspex cover.
Further details
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