A fine and detailed builder's model of the cargo ship S.S. 'Beaconsfield' built 1938 by Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering Co, Dundee for the Britain Steamship Co.Ltd, London, Yard No.377 with masts, derricks and rigging, anchors, winch, ventilators, fairleads, bollards, ventilators, covered battoned hatches, deck winches, superstructure with accomodation, bridge and wing bridges, deck rails, companionways, stayed funnel with ladder and safety valve extension pipes, engine room lights, aft deckhouse, four lifeboats in davits and many other details. The hull, finished in red and grey with white upperworks and brown decks with silverplated fittings is mounted on two silverplated columns, original mahogany glazed case -- 20½ x 64½in. (52 x 163.8cm.) Table -- 40 x 64½in. (101.5 x 163.8cm.)

The general cargo ship 'Beaconsfield' was built for the Britain Steamship Company by the Caledonian Ship Building & Engineering Co. at Dundee in 1938. Managed for Britain's by Watts, Watts & Co., she was registered in London at 4,635 tons gross (2,009 net) and measured 418½ feet in length with a 56½ foot beam. Designed with one main deck, a shelter deck and acruiser stern, she had engines by the North East Marine Engineering Co. of Newcastle and was rated 100A1 by LLoyd's surveyors at Dundee upon completion. Surviving Second World War service, she remained in Britain's fleet until 1958 when she was sold to the United Shipping & Investment Co. (managers of the Pacific Export & Import Co.) and renamed 'Twinhorse'. Her career with her new owners was short-lived however and they retired her early in 1964 when she was sold to Japanese shipbreakers who scrapped her at Hirao in July that year.