A Waterline Model Of The R.M.S. CARMANIA

E.J. WALPOLE; BRITISH, 20TH CENTURY

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A Waterline Model Of The R.M.S. CARMANIA
E.J. Walpole; British, 20th century
with masts, radio aerials, rigging, anchors, hawse pipes, anchor chains and winches, bollards, fairleads, deckrails, ventilators, derricks with rigging, water tanks, companionways, superstructure with bridge and open bridge over, two stayed funnels, engine room lights, sixteen covered lifeboats in davits, deck lights, aft helm and other details. The hull, finished in red below the waterline and black, is set with in a painted and moulded seascape in a wood bound glazed display case.
17½ x 5¾ x 6¾ in.(44.5 x 14.6 x 17.1 cm.) cased dimensions.

Lot Essay

Carmania was built by John Brown & Co., of Glasgow. Her principle dimensions were : LOA - 650.4 ft., Beam - 72.2 ft. had a GRT of 19,524. She was launched on February 21, 1905 and made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on December 2 of the same year. In August 1914, Carmania was requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser where she sank Hamburg Sud Amerika's Cap Trafalgar (disguised as Carmania herself) off Trinidad in September 1914. Carmania was returned to Cunard's Liverpool-New York service on November 1916 and remained in Cunard's service until 1931. Her final sailing was from London to New York in July 1931. She was then laid up off Sheerness and went to the shipbreakers in 1932.

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