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Lot 69AR

John Stobart
(British, b. 1929)
The 'Degema' leaving Apapa, Nigeria 61 x 91.4cm. (24 x 36in.)

27 February 2007, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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John Stobart (British, b. 1929)

The 'Degema' leaving Apapa, Nigeria
signed 'Stobart' (lower right)
oil on canvas
61 x 91.4cm. (24 x 36in.)

Footnotes

The second ‘Degema’ in the Elder Dempster fleet was built by William Gray & Co. at West Hartlepool and launched on 27th November 1956. Registered at 5,902 tons gross (3,112 net), she measured 460 feet in length with a 62 foot beam and was amongst the line’s first ‘higher speed’ ships designed to burn heavy oil. With a cruising speed of 14 knots, she was eventually handed over by her builders after a greatly delayed completion in April 1959 and thereafter gave Elder Dempster twenty years of reliable service before being sold out of their fleet in 1979. Purchased by Honduran owners and renamed ‘Veejumbo’, she reverted to her original name in 1982 only to be scrapped the following year.

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