拍品 81
81
A SCALE FULL HULL MODEL OF THE "ANDREA DORIA" built by Zigmunt Choren, details include mast and rigging, crow's nest, anchors, anchor chain, anchor windlasses, anchor chain stops, chocks, bullards, splash rail, derricks and deck winches winches, hatches, ladders, life belts, navigation lights, metal deck railings, radar aerial, search light, fog horn, Italian flag, funnel with vents and grills, window cutouts painted blue, applied doors with hinge and handle detail, and recreation areas with three pools, slide, deck umbrellas and chairs, finished in Italian Line livery with white tape waterline and cove stripe, blue porthole appliques with copper(?) wire frames, the decks are veneer strips with black edging to indicate planking, brass propellors, name in brass at bow and stern, and mounted on anodized metal columns, in mahogany framed showcase and mahogany table--65 x 97½in. (165.1 x 247.6cm.)

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A SCALE FULL HULL MODEL OF THE "ANDREA DORIA" built by Zigmunt Choren, details include mast and rigging, crow's nest, anchors, anchor chain, anchor windlasses, anchor chain stops, chocks, bullards, splash rail, derricks and deck winches winches, hatches, ladders, life belts, navigation lights, metal deck railings, radar aerial, search light, fog horn, Italian flag, funnel with vents and grills, window cutouts painted blue, applied doors with hinge and handle detail, and recreation areas with three pools, slide, deck umbrellas and chairs, finished in Italian Line livery with white tape waterline and cove stripe, blue porthole appliques with copper(?) wire frames, the decks are veneer strips with black edging to indicate planking, brass propellors, name in brass at bow and stern, and mounted on anodized metal columns, in mahogany framed showcase and mahogany table--65 x 97½in. (165.1 x 247.6cm.)

拍品專文

The turbine steamer "Andrea Doria" was built for the Italia Line in 1951. Completed in December 1952, she made her maiden voyage from Genoa to New York in January 1953 and proved a popular ship from the start. Registered at 29,083 tons gross, she measured 700 feet in length with a 90 foot beam, had a maximum speed of 25½ knots and could carry 1,241 passengers and a crew of 563. On 35 July 1956, whilst steaming in thick fog 100 nautical miles out of New York, she was rammed by the Swedish-America liner "Stockholm" and rapidly developed a heavy list. "Stockholm" was also badly damaged but seemed in no danger of sinking so took 533 people aboard from "Andrea Doria" and then headed for New York. Other vessels answered the distress calls quickly with the result that the loss of life was very small, but the following afternoon "Andrea Doria" heeled over and sank in what had been the most dramatic incident on the North Atlantic passenger trade in the post-War era.