A builder's model of the S.S. City of San Francisco

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A builder's model of the S.S. City of San Francisco
the hull built up in the traditional manner with wood lifts, dual load waterline painted in deep red and green with double propeller in brass and rudder, a white boot top and black and white topsides, with metal framed portholes, the fore, midships and aft decks of veneer with the planking lines drawn in, the cargo decks painted grey, and the decks detailed with ventilators, chocks, bollards, railings, anchor windlass, deck spools, ladders, cargo hatches, cargo booms and winches, fore and aft masts rigged with standing and running rigging, built up superstructure with bridge and bridge wings, running lights, binnacle, skylight, doors, windows, funnel painted in United Baltic Corp. livery, life boats on davits, docking wheel at stern and numerous other details. Mounted on a pair of turned brass pedestals on a mahogany board built up with a cove, and a wood frame for a glass case.
30½ x 80¾ in. (77.5 x 205.1 cm.) model on base board.

Lot Essay

Built for the Pacific Steamship Mail Co. at the Gotaverken yard near Goteburg, Sweden in 1924, the S.S. City of San Francisco had a LOA: 296ft, Beam: 55ft 9in, Draft: 18ft and a gross tonnage of 3,644 tons and comfortable accommodations for 59 first-class passengers. In 1925 W. R. Grace and Co. purchased the Pacific Mail Steamship company's intercoastal ships, and formed the Panama Mail Steamship Company, which only lasted for five years. In January 1931 the Panama Mail was merged with Grace Line and she became the S.S. Santa Monica, and in 1936 she became the S.S. Cumbal. She ended her career owned by United Baltic Corp. and foundered off the Baltic coast as the S.S. Baltabor in 1939.

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