拍品 380
380

An exhibition standard 1:384 scale waterline model of the Ellerman Lines passenger/cargo liner 'City of Port Elizabeth' (1953) built by R.Chapman with masts, derricks and rigging, anchors, winch, bollards, deck rails, companionways, hatches, ventilators, deck winches, superstructure with passenger accomodation, bridge and wing bridges with helm and binnacle over, funnel with hooter, deck and engine room lights, awning staunchions, swimming pool, aft deck house with lights, ventilators, rope drums, helm and binnacle, six lifeboats in davits and much other fine detailing, finished in Ellerman Lines livery and mounted on a painted seascape. Display base and glazed cover -- 7¾ x 24in. (19.7 x 61cm.)

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An exhibition standard 1:384 scale waterline model of the Ellerman Lines passenger/cargo liner 'City of Port Elizabeth' (1953) built by R.Chapman with masts, derricks and rigging, anchors, winch, bollards, deck rails, companionways, hatches, ventilators, deck winches, superstructure with passenger accomodation, bridge and wing bridges with helm and binnacle over, funnel with hooter, deck and engine room lights, awning staunchions, swimming pool, aft deck house with lights, ventilators, rope drums, helm and binnacle, six lifeboats in davits and much other fine detailing, finished in Ellerman Lines livery and mounted on a painted seascape. Display base and glazed cover -- 7¾ x 24in. (19.7 x 61cm.)
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拍品專文

This model was awarded Silver Medal ME Exhibition, Olympia 1994

'City of Port Elizabeth' was the first of the Ellerman Lines post-War passenger ships, ordered from Vickers, Armstrong and as the nameship of her class, was the first to be laid down in the builder's Newcastle yards. Registered at 13,363 tons gross, she measures 541 feet in length with a 71¼ foot beam. She was designed to carry 107 First Class passengers in addition to substantial cargo space divided between five holds. She was powered by two 6-cylinder 12,650b.h.p. Doxford diesel engines by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co, operating at 16½ knots. She was broken up in June 1980.