Lot Essay
The S.S. Dunsley was built for Pyman Brothers, London in 1913 by William Gray & Co. of West Hartlepool. She was sunk by U-24 on 19 August 1915, 45 miles south of Kinsale Head, Ireland.
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T. HINDMARSH; CIRCA 1970
Details
A builder's style model of the S.S. Dunsley
T. Hindmarsh; circa 1970
the hull of the model built up from the solid with painted red bottom, grey topsides, grey decks with the plating lines drawn in, and fitted with anchors, chocks, anchor windlass, ventilators, skylights, forward deck houses, deck railings, cargo hatches, cargo masts and booms with standing and running rigging, double height bridge, bridge wings with wheel binnacle and engine telegraph, ladders, gangway, canopy frame, boats on davits, docking wheel and binnacle, rudder propeller, and other details. Mounted on a pair of oak turned pedestals on a mahogany board with a glass cover with brass trim.
21 x 63 in. (53.3 x 160 cm.) cased.
T. Hindmarsh; circa 1970
the hull of the model built up from the solid with painted red bottom, grey topsides, grey decks with the plating lines drawn in, and fitted with anchors, chocks, anchor windlass, ventilators, skylights, forward deck houses, deck railings, cargo hatches, cargo masts and booms with standing and running rigging, double height bridge, bridge wings with wheel binnacle and engine telegraph, ladders, gangway, canopy frame, boats on davits, docking wheel and binnacle, rudder propeller, and other details. Mounted on a pair of oak turned pedestals on a mahogany board with a glass cover with brass trim.
21 x 63 in. (53.3 x 160 cm.) cased.