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A fine builder's mirror-backed half model of the S.S. 'Tirydail' built by C.H. Walker & Co. Ltd. Shipbuilders & Engineers, Sudbrook Shipyard, Monmouthshire. Measurements overall -- 16½ x 56½in. (41.9 x 143.5cm.)
With anchor and winch, cleats, bollards, ventilators, stove pipes, deck rails, companionways, hatches, lockers, centre wheelhouse with open bridge over with ship's wheel and binnacle, aft superstructure with stayed funel with safety valve extension pipe and hooter, ship's boat with thwarts in davits, aft mounted two-pounder naval gun and many other details. Finished in red and grey with brown decks and laquered brass fittings. Original mahogany case with angled side mirrors and front silvered rear mirror
The collier Tirydail was built by C.H. Walker & Co. of Sudbrook for Cleeves Western Valleys Anthracite Collieries Ltd. and completed in March 1918. Registered at 650 gross tons (363 net), she measured 176 feet in length with a 27½ foot beam, and was originally armed with a small stern gun due to the prevailing wartime conditions. Acquired by Everard's of Greenhithe in 1926, they kept her until she was sold to the Williamstown Shipping Co. in 1946 who renamed her Lincolnbrook. Resold the following year and renamed again to Joseph Mitchell, she was wrecked off Ballycotton on 9 February 1950 whilst carrying coal from Garston to Cork.
With anchor and winch, cleats, bollards, ventilators, stove pipes, deck rails, companionways, hatches, lockers, centre wheelhouse with open bridge over with ship's wheel and binnacle, aft superstructure with stayed funel with safety valve extension pipe and hooter, ship's boat with thwarts in davits, aft mounted two-pounder naval gun and many other details. Finished in red and grey with brown decks and laquered brass fittings. Original mahogany case with angled side mirrors and front silvered rear mirror
The collier Tirydail was built by C.H. Walker & Co. of Sudbrook for Cleeves Western Valleys Anthracite Collieries Ltd. and completed in March 1918. Registered at 650 gross tons (363 net), she measured 176 feet in length with a 27½ foot beam, and was originally armed with a small stern gun due to the prevailing wartime conditions. Acquired by Everard's of Greenhithe in 1926, they kept her until she was sold to the Williamstown Shipping Co. in 1946 who renamed her Lincolnbrook. Resold the following year and renamed again to Joseph Mitchell, she was wrecked off Ballycotton on 9 February 1950 whilst carrying coal from Garston to Cork.