Lot 131
A model of the R.M.S "Campania"
American, 20th century 65 x 8 x 11 in. (165.1 x 20.3 x 27.9 cm.) model on base.
American, 20th century
5 June 2013, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$5,000 - US$7,000
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A model of the R.M.S "Campania"
American, 20th century
American, 20th century
the hull built up from the solid with a red painted bottom, applied white waterline and black and white topsides. The decks are in pine with the deck planking drawn in and detailed with anchors, bollards, deck winches, anchor crane, splash boards, ladders, ventilators, deck railings, masts with standing and running rigging [damaged], life boats on davits, funnels painted in Cunard livery, sky lights, propellers and other details. Displayed on a mahogany board "on the ways" with a plexi-glass cover.
65 x 8 x 11 in. (165.1 x 20.3 x 27.9 cm.) model on base.
65 x 8 x 11 in. (165.1 x 20.3 x 27.9 cm.) model on base.
Footnotes
The R.M.S. Campania was owned by the Cunard Steamship Line, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan, Scotland, and launched on Thursday, 8 September 1891. Campania was the largest and fastest passenger liner afloat when she entered service in 1893. She crossed the Atlantic in less than six days; and on her second voyage in 1893, she won the prestigious Blue Riband. Campania and her sisterLucania served as Cunard's major passenger liners for 14 years and offered the most luxurious first-class passenger accommodation available. The interiors represented Victorian opulence at its peak, an expression of a highly confident and prosperous age. Later, they were superseded in both speed and size by a succession of four-funneled German liners. The German competition necessitated the construction of replacements for the two Cunarders, which came to fruition in 1907 with the appearance of the R.M.S. Lusitania and R.M.S. Mauretania. She ended her career with Cunard in 1914, just as war was breaking out in Europe. She was purchased by the Admiralty and converted into an armed float-plane carrier. She served the British Admiralty right up to the end of the war, when she broke her mooring at the Firth of Fourth during a squall and sank. Today the wreck site today is classified as being of historical importance and came under the jurisdiction of the Protection of Wrecks Act in 2000.