A fine and detailed builder's model of the quadruple screw motor liner Bermuda built for the Bermuda and West Indies Steamship Co. by Workman Clark & Co. of Belfast, 1927.

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A fine and detailed builder's model of the quadruple screw motor liner Bermuda built for the Bermuda and West Indies Steamship Co. by Workman Clark & Co. of Belfast, 1927.
with masts, radio aerials, derricks and rigging and deck details including anchors, anchor davit, winch, capstan, fairleads, bollards, ventilators, awning staunchions, rope drums, hatches, deck rais, companionways, deck house, deck winches, glazed superstructure with bridge with wing bridges and open bridge over with helm, binnacle, semaphore, telegraphs, fire buckets, engine room lights and air intakes, stayed funnels with hooter and ladder fans, promenade and boat decks with wood capped rails, stern anchor and much other fine detailing. The hull, finished in red, grey, white and buff and with gold plated deck fittings is fitted with four four-blade propellers, rudder, bilge keels and boarding companionways and mounted on four turned gold plated columns in original mahogany glazed case with cast builder's plates. Measurements overall -- 39½ x 103in. (100.3 x 236.2cm.)
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Ordered as a flagship for the Bermuda & West Indies Steamship Company (Furness, Withy & Co.) following the runaway success of the New York to Hamilton tourist run they had inaugurated in 1919, the motorship Bermuda was a classic luxury liner of the inter-war years whose actual service life proved tragically short. Built by Workman, Clark & Co. of Belfast, she measured 547 feet in length with a 74 foot beam and, when completed, was registered at 19,086 tons gross (17,000 deadweight). Constructed of steel throughout and with some particularly handsome public rooms, she had accommodation for 616 First and 75 Second class passengers and could cruise at 17 knots. Powered by 14,500bhp. Doxford diesels driving quadruple screws, she could make 18¼ knots at maximum speed and embodied many of the features of the innovative motorships developed during the 1920s. It is also noteworthy that she was one of the very first ships built exclusively for cruising and was an instant success when she entered service.

Launched on 28th July 1927 and completed on 14 th December the same year, she made the North Atlantic crossing to New York where she loaded supplies and took on passengers for her maiden voyage to Bermuda. Clearing New York for Hamilton on 14th January 1928, she made a very satisfactory maiden passage and, in fact, proved so popular from the outset that Furness, Withy decided to operate her all year round instead of merely on a seasonal basis as originally intended. Fate had decreed that she was to be an unlucky ship however and, when only two-and-a-half years old, she caught fire at the dockside in Hamilton on 17th June 1931. The initial fire aft was quickly extinguished but another, more serious, outbreak in her forward section soon took hold and much of her superstructure was severely damaged. Despite this, her hull remained sound so she was pumped dry of the water poured into her by the enthusiastic local fire brigade and, under her own power, returned to her builders the following month. Work to restore her began at once but on 19th November, by which time the repairs were almost complete, she caught fire again and, on this occasion, was so completely burned out that she sank at her moorings. With her wreck causing an obstruction, she was raised on Christmas Eve 1931 only to be declared a total loss. In May 1932 the hulk was purchased by Workman, Clark & Co. who, after removing her still intact engines, sold her to Metal Industries of Rosyth for scrapping. Even then bad luck still dogged her and, on 30th April 1933, whilst under tow to Rosyth by the tug Seaman, her fire-scarred wreck broke loose and ran aground on the Badcall Islands in Eddrachilles Bay, Scotland, where it eventually broke up.