
Lot 60W
A Builder's quality model of the Passenger Liner RMMV Stirling Castle 73x9.5x19.5ins.(185.5x24x49.5cm) 3
15 April 2014, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,500 inc. premium
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A Builder's quality model of the Passenger Liner RMMV Stirling Castle
Built by Ronnie Lawson to a scale of 1/120 from original Builder's plans. Plank on frame hull, painted lilac to the waterline and maroon below, with twin, four blade propellers. Timber decks with inscribed plank lines, cream superstructure with funnel in Union Castle livery. fine detailing includes anchors, cable and windlass, cargo derricks and winches, open bridge with binnacle, ship's boats on davits. With a polished stand and a portfolio of drawings, magazines and construction photographs. 73x9.5x19.5ins.(185.5x24x49.5cm) (3)
Footnotes
This model was awarded a Silver Medal at the Model Engineer & Engineering exhibition in London, 1995.
The RMMV Stirling Castle was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast and launched in 1936 for the Union Castle Mail Steamship Co., primarily for the Southampton to Cape Town liner service. On her maiden voyage, she broke the existing record for the route. Used as a troop ship during WW2, she was returned to service in 1946 and continued until sold for breaking in 1966.