A finely detailed and well presented builder's style model of the MacAndrews and Co. Ltd. fruit carrier M.S. Palomares, originally built by William Doxford & Son Ltd (1938),

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A finely detailed and well presented builder's style model of the MacAndrews and Co. Ltd. fruit carrier M.S. Palomares, originally built by William Doxford & Son Ltd (1938),
with masts, derricks and rigging, radio aerial, anchors, fairleads, bollards, anchor winches with chains, lockers, ventilators, wash deflector, deck rails, hose reels, deck hatch covers, deck winches, raised superstructure with glazed bridge with open bridge over, navigation lamps, fire buckets, water tanks, awning stanchions, companionways, engine room lights, stayed, yellow painted funnel with hooter, two ships boats in davits with bottom boards and thwarts, aft deckhouse, emergency helm, binnacle and telegraphs and other details. The hull with rudder, four-blade brass propeller, bilge keels and boarding companionway, is finished in red, green, white and varnish with gold plated fittings and mounted on two turned brass columns set within a glazed wood bound display case. Measurements overall -- 21 x 46 x 12in. (53.3 x 117 x 30.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

At the outbreak of World War Two the ship was requisitioned by the Royal Navy becoming H.M.S. Palomares and was converted into an anti-aircraft vessel. She formed part of the naval escort of the convoy PQ17 to Russia. In 1943 she was converted again, this time into a Fighter Direction Ship. 1944 saw her damaged by gunfire and mines, but she was repaired and returned to her owners in April 1946, who sold her on in 1959 in which year she was registered in Copnhagen and renamed Marysven.