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FINE SCALE MODEL OF THE FOUR-MASTED SHIP GWENDOLINE England, Circa 1890
An exquiste model of near-shipyard quality. Full hull built up in lifts and with painted red bottom and gray, white and black topsides. Detailed with a figurehead, faux gunports and rudder. Decks detailed with anchors, railings, bollards, pin and fife rails, ladders, deck houses, stove pipe, ship's boats, deck houses and hatches, companionway, ship's wheel, etc. Rigged as a four-masted bark, with bowsprit, masts, cross spars, standing and running rigging, and other rigging details. Hull set into a raised waterline. Displayed in the original mahogany case with original finish and an elaborately carved foliate and scroll nameboard with "Gwendoline" carved in the arched piece at the center. Case height 34.25". Length 41". Width 12.5".
Built as yard number 129 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Company in Middlesbrough, Gwendoline was launched on June 8, 1876 as the S.S. Redcar , but the name was quickly changed to S.S. Gwendoline . The iron vessel was owned by Herbert A. Swan (later Swan Brothers) of Middlesbrough.
On November 20, 1893 she was travelling from Bo'ness to Hull with a cargo of coal and a crew of 13 under the command of Captain Mallett when she sank offshore of Bamburgh.


From the Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts.

An exquiste model of near-shipyard quality. Full hull built up in lifts and with painted red bottom and gray, white and black topsides. Detailed with a figurehead, faux gunports and rudder. Decks detailed with anchors, railings, bollards, pin and fife rails, ladders, deck houses, stove pipe, ship's boats, deck houses and hatches, companionway, ship's wheel, etc. Rigged as a four-masted bark, with bowsprit, masts, cross spars, standing and running rigging, and other rigging details. Hull set into a raised waterline. Displayed in the original mahogany case with original finish and an elaborately carved foliate and scroll nameboard with "Gwendoline" carved in the arched piece at the center. Case height 34.25". Length 41". Width 12.5".
Built as yard number 129 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Company in Middlesbrough, Gwendoline was launched on June 8, 1876 as the S.S. Redcar , but the name was quickly changed to S.S. Gwendoline . The iron vessel was owned by Herbert A. Swan (later Swan Brothers) of Middlesbrough.
On November 20, 1893 she was travelling from Bo'ness to Hull with a cargo of coal and a crew of 13 under the command of Captain Mallett when she sank offshore of Bamburgh.


From the Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts.
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