拍品 248
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THE BUILDER'S HALF-BLOCK MODEL FOR THE STEAM TRAWLERS COMMISSIONER & CHAMBERLAIN, BUILT BY HALL, RUSSELL & CO. LTD, ABERDEEN
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THE BUILDER'S HALF-BLOCK MODEL FOR THE STEAM TRAWLERS COMMISSIONER & CHAMBERLAIN, BUILT BY HALL, RUSSELL & CO. LTD, ABERDEEN

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THE BUILDER'S HALF-BLOCK MODEL FOR THE STEAM TRAWLERS COMMISSIONER & CHAMBERLAIN, BUILT BY HALL, RUSSELL & CO. LTD, ABERDEEN
with carved hull and deck housing, cut-away funnel and masts, finished in cream, black and lacquer and mounted on a mahogany display board with ivorine builder's and name plates -- 35½in. (89cm.) diameter.
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拍品专文

Chamberlain and Commissioner were an identical pair of ketch-rigged steam trawlers built by Hall, Russell & Co. at Aberdeen in 1905. Registered in Granton, near Leith, at 172 tons gross (36 net and 161 under-deck), each measured 112¼ feet in length with a 21 foot beam and was powered by one of their builder's own triple-expansion 3-cylinder engines. Owned and operated by T. Devlin Jnr. of Trinity, Edinburgh, he loaned both vessels to the Admiralty for war duties and each was put to work as an auxiliary. Chamberlain, taken up in March 1917, was allotted the Admiralty number 3336, armed with a single 6-pounder and served until 1919 as a minesweeper. Still afloat in 1939, but by then named River Ythan, she was again scheduled for requisition for war service in March 1940 but never actually required. Commissioner meanwhile, also taken up in March 1917 and allotted no. 1690, was armed with 2-12pdrs., 1-3pdr. and 1-7.5in. 'bomb thrower' (anti-submarine howitzer) and enjoyed a far more exciting wartime career as one of the famous 'Q-ships' (or submarine decoys), her 'fighting' crew commanded by Lieutenant F.W. Charles, R.N.R., albeit with her fishing skipper in overall command. Like her sister, she too survived the Great War and eventually returned to civilian working.