Lot 241
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A WELL-PRESENTED 32':1" SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE BRITISH EAST INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S TROOPSHIP DILWARA [1936]
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A WELL-PRESENTED 32':1" SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE BRITISH EAST INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S TROOPSHIP DILWARA [1936]

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A WELL-PRESENTED 32':1" SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE BRITISH EAST INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S TROOPSHIP DILWARA [1936]
modelled by R.A. Wilson with carved and painted wooden hull, scored decks with fittings, eighteen lifeboats and two launches in davits, masts, rigging and aerials, mounted in a moulded and painted seascape within a wood-bound plexi-glass case with name plate. Overall -- 7½ x 24½in. (19 x 62cm.) Travel case, notes.
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Lot Essay

Completed in 1936, Dilwara was the first purpose-built troopship launched for seventy years. Designed for 1,731 persons including 209 crew, she could maintain a service speed of 16 knots. Attacked and reported "sunk" by the Italians and later dive-bombed during the evacuation of Greece, Dilwara was not damaged and survived the war. Sold to the Chinese Steam Navigation Co. in the 1960s, she was sold for scrap in 1972.

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