SHIP'S BELL FROM THE BURSTAH

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SHIP'S BELL FROM THE BURSTAH
cast in brass with stepped moulded crown, inscribed BURSTAH in black-filled lettering around the rim, now mounted on a wooden belfry -- 20½in. (52cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Burstah was a small West German freighter built for H.M. Gehrckens of Hamburg by Werft Nobiskrug at Rendsburg in 1955. Designed with her machinery aft and powered by 3 Daimler-Benz oil engines giving a service speed of 12 knots, she was registered at 1,332 tons gross (2,100 deadweight) and measured 281 feet in length with a 40 foot beam.

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