A WELL-PRESENTED AND DETAILED MODEL OF THE UNION-CASTLE LINER TANTALLON CASTLE (1894)

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A WELL-PRESENTED AND DETAILED MODEL OF THE UNION-CASTLE LINER TANTALLON CASTLE (1894)
modelled by R.A. Wilson with masts, yards with furled sails, derricks, standing and running rigging, anchors with chains and winches, deckrails, bitts, bollards, ventilators, light housing, companionways, deckhousing, main superstucture with open bridge with helm and wheel house, twelve lifeboats in davits, stayed red-painted funnel with safety valve extension pipe and whistle, engine room lights, water tanks, saloon lights, promendade decks, capstan and other details. The hull with lined deck, simulated plating, bilge keels, four-blade brass propeller and rudder, is finished in red, lavendar grey and matt and mounted on two turned brass columns within wood-bound glazed display case with legend -- 9 x 22in. (23 x 56cm.)
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The steel single screw steamer Tantallon Castle was built by Fairfield Shipping, Glasgow for the Castle Line in 1894. She had a length of 440ft 3in., breath 50ft 6in., and gross tonnage of 5,636 tons. Powered by quadruple expansion steam engine producing 1,229 horsepower, the Tantallon Castle could reach a maximum speed of 17.3 knots.

In 1895, the Tantallon Castle made her way across the North Sea to celebrate the opening of the Kiel Canal by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Her guests included Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, and a brief visit from the Danish Royal family when she docked in Copenhagen. Her fortune fatally changed however in 1901 when she ran aground in dense fog on Robben island, Table Bay. Despite the efforts of her three sister ships -- the Braemar Castle, Avondale Castle and Raglan Castle -- she stuck fast and, within weeks, was broken in two and smashed to pieces in a violent storm.