A WELL-PRESENTED 32":1' SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE TOPSAIL SCHOONER MARY B. MITCHELL (EX-Q9. MARY Y. JOSE) OF 1892

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A WELL-PRESENTED 32":1' SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE TOPSAIL SCHOONER MARY B. MITCHELL (EX-Q9. MARY Y. JOSE) OF 1892
modelled by R. Wilson with masts, yards, booms, full suit of sails, standing and running rigging, figurehead, deckrails, bitts, companionsways, winches, covered hatches, deck houses, dinghy, ventilators, deck lights and other details. The hull painted black an set in a painted moulded seascape within wood-bound glazed case. Overall measurements -- 5¾ x 11½in. (14.5 x 29cm.). Carry box, historical data
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Built by Paul Rodgers and Company in 1892 for Lord Penrhyn, the Mary B. Mitchell was initially intended as a private yacht but was converted shortly after for use as a cargo-carrying coaster. In 1916 she was spotted lying in Falmouth by the British Admiralty, requisitioned and fitted out as Q-ship N^o. Q9. Ostensibly in shabby condition, displaying rust streaked plating and grimy sails her appearance was deliberately deceptive. False bulwarks concealed 5 guns and her naval crew disguised themselves in civilian clothing. On December 2ⁿ^d 1916 she encountered gunfire from a U-boat in the Western Approaches. The schooner surprised her enemies as the false bulwarks fell away and the crew retaliated, sinking the submarine. She also survived a torpedo the same year that passed within yards of her hull. Surviving the War, she was eventually wrecked in 1944 in the Solway Firth.