A detailed 1:96 scale display model of the passenger/cargo ship S.S. 'Hull'

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A detailed 1:96 scale display model of the passenger/cargo ship S.S. 'Hull'
built by C. Riches with masts, derricks and rigging, anchors, winch, fairleads, bollards, deck rails, companionways, ventilators, hatches, deck winches, wheelhouse with open bridge over with awning staunchions, helm, binnacles, telegraph and lockers, stayed funnel with ladder, hooter and safety valve extension pipe, engine room lights, deck lights, aft helm, two lifeboats with bottom boards, thwarts and oars and dinghy, all in davits, and other details. The hull, with four blade propellor and rudder is finished in brown, red, black and white and mounted on two turned brass columns -- 10½ x 32in. (26.7 x 81.2cm.) Glazed case with brass plate engraved 'S.S. Hull built 1907 at Dundee Wilson's and North Eastern Railway Shipping Co. Scrapped 1954'
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Lot Essay

The Hull - and full sister YORK - of gross tons 1132 were built in 1907 by the Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Dundee. They were the first ships built for the newly formed Wilson's & North Eastern Railway Co. established in 1906 to provide improved passenger & freight services between Hull, Hamburg, Antwerp, Ghent & Dunkirk. She had a capacity for 34 First Class & 120 'Steerage' passengers who were accommodated in the after upper tween deck. Interned during the Great War in 1914 at Hamburg, her crew were allowed to return home in 1916. The ship was returned to her owners in 1919. In 1937 both the Hull & the York were sold to Algerian owners and survived the Second World War, remaining in service until both ships were scrapped in 1954.

Ship details - Gross tons 1132
Net tons 451
Length 255'7"
Beam 36'2"
Depth 14'8"
Engine triple expansion
Speed 14.5 knots

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