A LATE 19TH CENTURY MIRROR-BACK HALF-BUILDER'S MODEL OF THE STERN WHEEL PADDLE STEAMER AYESHA AND PARBATTI BUILT BY BOW, McLACHLAN & CO., PAISLEY

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A LATE 19TH CENTURY MIRROR-BACK HALF-BUILDER'S MODEL OF THE STERN WHEEL PADDLE STEAMER AYESHA AND PARBATTI BUILT BY BOW, McLACHLAN & CO., PAISLEY
the upper deck with deck rails, awning stanchions with paper awning, open helm, deck housing and companionway; the lower deck with anchor davit, anchor winch, fairleads, bollards, coal shute covers, boiler with funnel and saftey valve extension pipe, deck lockers, hatch, hinged boarding gangway, deck rails, gunwhale-mounted winch, twin cylinder horizontal engine to covered stern paddle. The hull with tandem rudders is finished in pink and black with anodised and silver- plate deck fittings and mounted on a front-silvered mirror (some silver loss) within glazed mahogany case with silver plate engraved E.I.R. INDENT 369 OF 1893 /STERN WHEEL STEAMERS AYESHA AND PARBATTI DIMENSIONS LENGTH 110'-0" BREADTH 22'-0" DEPTH 4'-6" COMPOUND ENGINES CYL 15" AND 28" STROKE 3'-6" PRESSURE 120 LBS BOW McLAREN & COY ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS PAISLEY. Overall measurements -- 14¼ x 36 x 9in. (36.2 x 92 x 22.9cm.)
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拍品专文

With Ayesha apparently named for 'A'isha, the wife of the prophet Mohammed, the founder of Islam, and Parbatti for an Indian river, this pair of steamers seems to be amongst the twenty-two sternwheelers built for the Joint Steamer Companies [of India] between 1893 and 1898. Intended for shallow-water operations on the Feeder services in Upper Assam, all were approximately 100 feet in length and broadly of the same design. The so-called Joint Companies, formed by an amalgamation of the Rivers Steam Navigation Company and the India General Steam Navigation Company, embarked on a considerable expansion during the 1890's and many new vessels were ordered from specialist British yards. Once completed, the steamers were normally dismantled, shipped out in a prefabricated state and reassembled in the company's workshops in India.