A FINE SILVER AND IVORY LAUNCHING HATCHET FOR THE S.S. NORSEMAN, CIRCA 1882.

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A FINE SILVER AND IVORY LAUNCHING HATCHET FOR THE S.S. NORSEMAN, CIRCA 1882.
the tapering fluted shaft with foliate-engraved silver head, with steel-edged blade, and handle ferrule with inscription Norseman LAUNCHED 31st Augt. 1882 BIRKENHEAD IRON WORKS, contained within plush-lined leather case with retail label -- 9in. (23cm.) diameter
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Lot Essay

Built by Laird's at their Birkenhead yard in 1882, the Norseman was confusingly ordered by Richards, Mills & Co. of Liverpool, registered in the name of the British & North Atlantic Steam Navigation Company [of Liverpool] but managed by George Warren & Co's Warren Line during her lifetime. Registered at 4,386 tons gross (2,876 net), she measured 392 feet in length with a 44 foot beam and was engined by her builders for a service speed of 12 knots. A four-masted steamer designed purely for cargo, she spent her entire career on the same Liverpool to Boston route until wrecked at Marblehead, Massachusetts, on 29th March 1899. Fortunately no lives were lost and although she was subsequently refloated and towed into Boston, she was considered beyond economic repair and scrapped at Philadelphia soon afterwards.

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