A fine builder's model of the cargo ship S.S. Kenilworth of Newcastle built by Richardson Duck & Co. Ltd. Stockton-on-Tees 1918, Yard No.662 for Dalgleish Steam Shipping Co. Ltd. Newcastle-on-Tyne

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A fine builder's model of the cargo ship S.S. Kenilworth of Newcastle built by Richardson Duck & Co. Ltd. Stockton-on-Tees 1918, Yard No.662 for Dalgleish Steam Shipping Co. Ltd. Newcastle-on-Tyne
with masts, derricks and rigging, radio aerial, anchors, winch, fairleads, bollards, ventilators, deck rails, companionways, hatches, deck winches, superstructure with wheelhouse with open bridge over with helm, binnacle, telegraphs, semaphore post, flag and chart lockers, stayed funnel with safety valve extension pipes and hooter, engine room lights, water tanks, aft helm, six ship's boats in davits with bottom boards and thwarts and much other fine detailing. The hull, finished in pink, black, white (some paint flakes) and lacquer with silver plated fittings, is mounted on four turned plated columns, display base and original mahogany glazed case with plate engraved "Kenilworth" Length - 430'0"/Bredth Extreme - 55'0"/Depth Moulded - 29'1"/Engines by Blair & Co. Ltd./Cylinders - 28"-46"-78"x54"/Built - 1918/By - Richardson Duck & Co. Ltd./No.662 - Stockton-on-Tees and presentation plate engraved Presented to the Trustee Savings Banks Central Board/By/Trustee Savings Bank North East/On Behalf of/S.S.W. Dalgleish Esq., Custodian Trustee/Trustee Savings Bank of Newcastle Upon Tyne - Manager 1937/Trustee 1948; Chairman 1952-1958; T.S.B. Employers Council - Chairman 1955-1963/3rd. April 1978 with original brass builder's plate engraved Dalgleish Steam Shipping Company Ltd. Newcastle. Owners. S.S. "KENILWORTH" Richardson Duck & Co. Ltd. Stockton on Tees. Measurements overall -- 60 x 64 x 19in. (152.5 x 163.8 x 49cm.) Mahogany stand
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Lot Essay

Designed and rigged as a steel screw schooner, Kenilworth was built for the Dalgliesh Steam Shipping Company by Richardson, Duck & Co. at Stockton. Completed in March 1918, she was registered at 5,457 tons gross (3,288 net & 5,096 underdeck) and measured 430 feet in length with a 55 foot beam. Her 3-cylinder triple expansion engines developing 615nhp. were by Blair's of Stockton and her Port of Registry was Newcastle where she was classed 100A1 by Lloyd's surveyors. By the mid-1930's, she was owned by the Worth Steamship Company but in 1936-7 she was sold to Foreign Investments Ltd. who changed her Port of Registry to Shanghai. In 1947 she passed into the ownership of the Chinese Maritime Trust Ltd. who renamed her Tien Hsing and registered her under Chinese colours. Subsequently de-classed by Lloyd's due to reported defects, her name changed again in 1953 to Hsaing Yung and she was scrapped in 1959.

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