A BUILDER'S HALF BLOCK MODEL OF THE ARMED YACHT MAIRI 1914--1918

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A BUILDER'S HALF BLOCK MODEL OF THE ARMED YACHT MAIRI 1914--1918
with details including cut-away masts and funnel, anchor, deck rails, winch, fairleads, bollards, deck lights, forward quick-firing gun and aft machine gun, deck house with starboard lamp on top, companionway, helm, binnacle, searchlights, ventilator, covered lifeboat in davits, water[?] tank and other details. The hull with portholes, propellor and rudder is finished in red below the waterline, grey and with lined, painted and laquered decks and superstructure, mounted on a board with ivorine plaque within galzed mahogany display case -- 11 x 29¾ x 7in. (28 x 75.5 x 18cm.)
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拍品專文

The steel screw schooner Mairi was designed for the Marquis of Graham by William Beardmore & Co. of Dalmuir, near Glasgow. Built on the Clyde at Whiteinch by Ritchie, Graham & Milne in 1911, she was registered at 59 tons gross (35 net and 65 Thames) and measured 80 feet in length with a 14 foot beam. Initially hired and subsequently purchased by the Admiralty early in the Great War, she was fitted with a 3-pounder gun and was mostly employed as a submarine depot ship although one record states she was used latterly as a tug (after March 1918). Sold back into private ownership in August 1919, she was purchased by the eminent lawyer, the 1st Lord Birkenhead who had her reconditioned and fitted with a powerful new 6-cylinder Standard petrol engine. Kept by Lord Birkenhead until he died in 1930, her next owner was Mr. Claude Grahame-White, the pioneer aviator and aeronautical engineer, although he resold her to a Belgian before the Second World War. Surviving the War, she disappears from record around 1950, presumably scrapped.