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A Builder's Style Model Of The Steam Yacht MAYFLOWER
A Builder's Style Model Of The Steam Yacht MAYFLOWER

ANONYMOUS, (BRITISH, 20TH CENTURY)

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A Builder's Style Model Of The Steam Yacht MAYFLOWER
Anonymous, (British, 20th century)
A large and dramatically detailed model of this former American Presidential yacht. The hull of the model is built up from the solid with white painted topsides, a green waterline and a red bottom. The decks of the model are from basswood veneer and have the planks drawn in India ink.The decks of the model are fitted with numerous structures and fittings which include: anchors and anchor chains, ventilators, capstan, bollards and cleats, stove pipe, hand railings along all the decks, companionways and doghouses of mahogany, ladders, bridge with binnacle and wheel, running lights, canopy frames, walkways, seven ship's boats swung out on davits, two masts with standing and running rigging, portholes, gangway, chocks, rudder, propellers and other details. The model is mounted on four turned mahogany pedestals in a glass and mahogany case. Within the case is a brass plate which reads: "The Presidential Yacht/'MAYFLOWER'/Built By/J&G Thompson Ltd Clydebank" along with the principal dimensions.
83¾ x 22 5/8 x 40 in. (212.8 x 57.4 x 101.6 cm.) cased dimensions.

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A luxurious steam yacht built in 1896 by J. and O. Thompson, Scotland Mayflower was purchased by the Navy from the estate of Ogden Goelet for the impending war with Spain. She joined joined the fleet blockading Havana, Cuba. In 1902 she was recommissioned as the U.S. Presidential Yacht, and remained in that service for many years. President Hoover withdrew her from service as the Presidential Yacht in 1929. She was laid up in the Philadelphia Navy Yard when she was badly burned in June, 1931. She was purchased in 1942 by the Maritime Commission; after being refitted and renamed Mayflower, she entered the Coast Guard where she served as a training vessel until 1946. Decommissioned and sold, she caught fire and was towed to Baltimore. She was then purchased and put under the Panama flag under the name Mala, where she carried refugees from France to Israel.