A builder's mirror back half model of the S.S. 'Hunstanworth' with cutaway masts and funnel, anchor, winch, cleats and bollards, hose reels, ventilators, deck rails, companionways, hatches, deck winches and derricks, superstructure with wheel house and open bridge over with semaphore mast, telegraph and binnacle, engine room lights, lockers, lifebelts, steering rods and chains, aft steering position and many other details, finished in red, yellow, black and white with varnished decks and silver plated and anodised fittings. Original mahogany case with front silvered glass (silvering defective) -- 18 x 51¾in. (45.8 x 131.5cm.)

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A builder's mirror back half model of the S.S. 'Hunstanworth' with cutaway masts and funnel, anchor, winch, cleats and bollards, hose reels, ventilators, deck rails, companionways, hatches, deck winches and derricks, superstructure with wheel house and open bridge over with semaphore mast, telegraph and binnacle, engine room lights, lockers, lifebelts, steering rods and chains, aft steering position and many other details, finished in red, yellow, black and white with varnished decks and silver plated and anodised fittings. Original mahogany case with front silvered glass (silvering defective) -- 18 x 51¾in. (45.8 x 131.5cm.)
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拍品专文

The steel screw steamer Hunstanworth was built by the Ardrossan Drydock & Shipbuilding Co. of Ardrossan for the Robert Stanley Shipping Co. Ltd. (Managers - R.S. Dalgleish) during the post- Great War building boom of 1919. Registered at 2,579 tons gross (1,435 net), she measured 303 feet in length with a 43 foot beam, and was powered by coal-fired triple expanion engines by McKie & Baxter of Glasgow which produced 265 n.h.p. to give her a cruising speed of 9 knots. Ten years in Stanley's ownership was followed by eight in the Dalgleish Steam Shipping Company's fleet whereupon she was then sold to Anglo-Canadian Shipping in 1937. They renamed her Seven Seas Sound and operated her out of Cardiff, but this venture was short-lived and in 1938 she was resold again to German owners, re-registered in Hamburg and renamed Bernlef. Serving throughout the second World War, she survived hostilities only to be lost in mysterious circumstances on 14 August 1945. Outward bound from Copenhagen with a cargo of munitions [presumabaly war surplus], she blew up and sank off the Danish island of North Sjaelland with the loss of all 39 persons aboard.