A detailed builders model of the M/S Gundersen built 1927 by A. B. Gutaverken Sweden for A/S Titchfield, Oslo

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A detailed builders model of the M/S Gundersen built 1927 by A. B. Gutaverken Sweden for A/S Titchfield, Oslo
with masts, derricks, aerials, rigging and deck details including anchors, winches, bollards, ventilators, awnings, stanchions, wood-capped deck rails, companionways, heads, hatches, deck winches, superstructure with glazed bridge, engine room lights, stayed funnel, aftdocking bridge with double helm, binnacle, rope drums and four ship's boats with thwarts in davits. The hull, with boarding ladder, twin shafts with 'A' brackets and four blade propellers and rudder is finished in united Fruit Line livery and mounted on two plated columns, original mahogany glazed case
41 x 18½in. (104 x 47cm.), case

Lot Essay

The steel twin-screw cargo steamer Gundersen was built at Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1927 for the A/S Titchfield Company of Oslo. Registered under the Norwegian flag at 1,888 tons gross (1,050 net), she measured 269 feet in length and was powered by oil-fired engines made in her builder's own workshops. Proving a reliable vessel when she entered service for her new owners, she spent fifteen years trading peacefully until she became a casualty of World War Two. On 2 July 1942, whilst on passage from Tela, Honduras, to Galveston carrying 16,255 hands of bananas, she was torpedoed and sunk by an unidentified submarine in the Gulf of Mexico with the loss of one life.

We are grateful to Michael Naxton for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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