A fine builder's half block model of the single screw steam yacht Adle built by Hawthorns and Co. for Henry Dutton circa 1906

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A fine builder's half block model of the single screw steam yacht Adle built by Hawthorns and Co. for Henry Dutton circa 1906
with masts, deck housing, companionway, deck lights, ventilator, inscribed ports and panels and single screw, finished in black and natural wood with some bow detailing and ivorine builders plate inscribed S.Y. ADLE 317 TONS Y.M. built for HENRY DUTTON, ESQ. to the order of E.A. PEARCE, EFFINGHAM HOUSE, ARUNDEL STREET, STRAND LONDON, ENGLAND. by HAWTHORNS & Co., OF LEITH, SCOTLAND. FROM DESIGNS BY A.H. BROWN, N.A., 25 RYDER STREET, ST. JAMES, LONDON, ENGLAND, mounted on polished mahogany board (some old damage) -- 14 x 53in. (35.5 x 134.5cm.)
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Provenance

Henry Dutton and thence by descent

Lot Essay

The steel screw schooner Adle was built for Mr. Henry Dutton of Anlaby, Kapunda, South Australia in 1906. Designed by A.H. Brown of London but constructed in Hawthorns' yards at Leith, she was registered at 288 tons gross (131 net) and measured 145 feet in length with a 22 foot beam. Powered by one of Hawthorns' own triple-expansion 3-cylinder engines, she also had a full suit of sails by Madder and caused something of a sensation when she arrived at Port Adelaide (Australia) where she was to be based. Initially surveyed and rated 100A1 by Lloyd's at Leith in 1906, her next survey was carried out at Adelaide in 1913 when she received the same rating. Thereafter she disappears from record until 1939 when, upon the outbreak of the Second World War, she was hired on 'examination service' by the Royal Australian Navy that September. Allocated pennant number FY.89, she served almost four years until wrecked on 7th May 1943 after colliding with the breakwater at Port Kembla, south of Sydney, during bad weather.

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