S.S. Teucer underway

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Chinese School, 19th Century
S.S. Teucer underway
oil on canvas
17 x 23 in. (43 x 58.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The second of six distinctive sisterships ordered for Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel Line, Teucer was built by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1906. Registered at 9,017 tons gross (5,805 net), she measured 485½ feet in length with a 58½ foot beam and was powered by two triple-expansion engines by North East Marine, also of Newcastle. Designed with what soon became affectionately known as 'goal post' masts, Teucer was actually commissioned ahead of her senior sister Bellerophon and proved the fastest of the sextet once all were in service. Such was her speed, in fact, that she outran a surfaced German U-boat in the Mediterranean in December 1915 and survived both World Wars until finally scrapped in 1948.

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