A Model Of The Sail/Steam Yacht HARVARD

ANONYMOUS; 20TH CENTURY

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A Model Of The Sail/Steam Yacht HARVARD
Anonymous; 20th century
A large scale model of this famous yacht. The hull is painted with white topsides and a red bottom. The decks of the model are planked in mahogany and the cabin and deck structures are built up in mahogany as well. The model is well detailed with anchors, anchor davit, anchor windlass, bollards, deck railings, ships's wheel, binnacle, ventilators, funnel, life rings, coils of line, 6 ships boats on brass davits, ladders, coils of line, and numerous other details. The model is rigged as a three masted bark with a full set of cotton sails set with stitched panel seams. The model is well rigged with standing and running rigging. The model is mounted in a mahogany framed glass case with fan cut inlays in each corner and is displayed on a mahogany stand.
68¼ x 20¼ x 66½ in.(173.4 x 51.5 x 168.7 cm.) cased dimensions on stand.

Lot Essay

The sail/steam yacht Harvard was designed by Charles Hanscom and built by Bath Iron Works; Bath, Maine for George F. Baker, Jr. in 1894. She had principal dimensions of LOA: 243ft, LWL: 208ft, BEAM: 32ft, DRAFT: 13.4ft, a gross tonnage of 803tns and a maximum speed of 14.5kts. As the United States was approaching WWI Mr. Baker offered his yacht Viking to the Navy but they did not accept it because her bunker capacity was too small, so Mr. Baker purchased Eleanor, changed her name to Harvard and gave her to the Navy. She served on the Breton Patrol during the War. After the War she was used as a commercial ship in the Greek waters as late as 1948.

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