A BUILDER'S MODEL OF THE S.S. LLONGWEN, BUILT BY RICHARDSON, DUCK & CO. FOR MESSRS W. & C.T. STEAMSHIP CO. LTD., 1906.

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A BUILDER'S MODEL OF THE S.S. LLONGWEN, BUILT BY RICHARDSON, DUCK & CO. FOR MESSRS W. & C.T. STEAMSHIP CO. LTD., 1906.
the carved hul with lined superstructure, silver fittings, masts and rigging, finished in pink, black and white with grey decks and mounted within original mahogany display case with builder's and owner's plates and stand. Measurements including stand -- 56½ x 58½ x 16½in. (143.5 x 148.5 x 42cm.) (2)

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Lot Essay

The steel screw steamer Llongwen was built by Richardson, Duck & Co. at Stockton in 1906. Owned by the W. & C.T. Jones Steamship Company, she was registered in Cardiff at 4,683 tons gross (3,013 net) and measured 369 feet in length with a 51 foot beam. Powered by a triple-expansion 3-cylinder engine by Blairs of Stockton, she gave almost ten years of service until 18th July 1916, when she was sunk in the Mediterranean 90 miles N.E. of Algiers by the German submarine U-39. On passage at the time from Naples to Barry, South Wales, fourteen lives were lost during the shelling by the submarine although her captain was amongst the survivors.

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