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Lot 337
A BERMUDAN RIGGED POND YACHT, CIRCA 1920, the planked and pinned hull with weighted keel, rudder, sprung bow sprit, access hatch and adjustable mast step, with wooden mast, linen sails in batons, and rigging with adjusting blocks, now fitted with servos to rudder, complete with radio control unit, loosely mounted on carry cradle with canvas strapping, overall measurements -- 83 x 66in. (211 x 167.5cm.), This model will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
Lot 338
A FINELY DETAILED 1:200 SCALE WATERLINE MODEL FOR THE HEAVY CRUISER H.M.S. EXETER AS IN FITTED IN 1942, modelled by John R. Haynes with bespoke pre-formed hull with lined decks and minutely observed fittings as appropriate and including main and secondary armament, anti-aircraft guns, fully fitted bridge with binnacles, voice tubes, range finder, communications mast with radio aerials and lanyard, signal flag racks, fitted boats on launches, Supermarine Walrus seaplane, and much other fine detailing, set on a light green-blue base with plate, glazed wooden cover, overall measurements -- 10« x 39 x 8óin. (26 x 99 x 22cm.), Exeter first came into prominence at the battle of the River Plate which ended in the destruction of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, in December 1939. Having sustained the full weight of the enemy~s heavy guns until her consorts, Ajax and Achillies, arrived, Exeter scraped through with four of her six 8in. guns out of action and her steering gear smashed. After a lengthy refit, early in 1942 she was in Far Eastern waters under Capt. O.L. Gordon, M.V.O., and, on February 27th she formed one of a force of cruisers and destroyers led by Rear-Admiral K. Doorman of the Royal Netherlands Navy engaged in repelling a Japanese landing in the Dutch East Indies. The Allied forces comprised, beside Exeter, the Dutch cruisers De Ruyter, (flagship) and Java, the Australian cruiser Perth, the U.S. heavy cruiser Houston, and the Dutch destroyer Kortenaer with the British destroyers Electra, Encounter and Jupiter. Not one ship of this unfortunate squadron escaped destruction. The Japanese force comprised the cruisers Nati and Haguaro, two lighter cruisers and about a dozen destroyers. Action was joined at about 4 o~clock in the afternoon, Exeter receiving a hit from an 8in. shell which caused great damage in the boiler room, putting six of her eight boilers out of action and considerably reducing her speed. In these circumstances she had no alternative than to go about for Sourabaya as she could not keep up with her consorts. At Sourabaya she made contact with the U.S. destroyer Pope and was later joined by Encounter, the three ships leaving under cover of night for Australia. For this voyage Exeter~s maximum speed was at first 15 knots, but her engine room staff worked heroically through the night and by morning three more boilers were in use and speed had increased to 26 knots. Her plight was still very grave, however, as she had expended four-fifths of her 8in. gun ammunition in the recent action and was in no condition to fight a prolonged engagement. At 9.35 on the morning of March 1st the ships ran into three Japanese cruisers and some four or five destroyers and Exeter sent out a wireless message that she was about to engage the enemy. Despite the odds the battered cruiser fought well for over two hours after which time, at just before noon, she was sunk by her crew. Her boilers had been wrecked and all her ammunition expended before she sank. The loss on board the Exeter in both actions amounted to 54 officers and men killed. The survivors were taken prisoner by the Japanese and no less than 152 of them died in captivity. Capt. Gordon, who was released at the conclusion of hostilities, had preserved his records of the action in a tube of shaving cream. The destroyer Encounter sank shortly after the cruiser, but Pope, which scored a hit on a cruiser, ran into a rain squall and was not located for more than a hour, at the end of which time she was attacked and sunk by Japanese bombers.
Lot 349
A SMALL-SIZED TRAVEL AGENT'S WATERLINE MODEL FOR THE ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD LINER M.V. WILLEM RUYS , 1947, modelled by C. Doubleman, Holland, the carved painted hull, lined paper decks with detailed fittings as appropriate including lifeboats in davits, mast with radio aerials over bridge with range finders etc., mounted on a plain blue plexiglass base with maker~s label on ebonised base with glazed brass bound cover -- 6« x 24 x 6«in. (16.5 x 61 x 16.5cm.) , Ordered in 1939, the launch was delayed until 1946 by World War II. Registered at 21, 119 tons and 642 ft in length, she was unlucky early in her career when she was involved in a serious collision with the Oranje in 1953. Sold in 1965 to Flotta Lauro (later Lauro Line) and extensively refitted, she is chiefly remembered for the extraordinary hijacking by members of the PLO in October 1985 who murdered disabled American Jew Leon Klinghoffer and then threw his body overboard. The ship continued in service and was reflagged in 1987 when the Lauro Line was taken over by the Mediterranean Shipping Company to become the Star Lauro. On November 30, 1994, she caught fire off the coast of Somalia while en route to South Africa. The crew attempted to battle the fire for several hours but were unsuccessful. Abandoned, the vessel sank on December 2nd.
Lot 351
AN ATTRACTIVE MIRROR-BACK HALF MODEL FOR THE R.M.S. MAURETANIA, CIRCA 1910, the hull carved from the solid with red below the waterline and black with blued and gilt portholes, lined deck with detailed fittings including winches, capstan, ventilators, etc., covered lifeboats in davits, stayed funnels with safety values and pipes, masts with rigging and radio aerial and Cunard flag, mounted on mirror with two faux supports within fully glazed case with taped sides -- 9 x 29« x 3in. (23 x 75 x 7.5cm.), During work to correct a cracked side panel, the backing board was found to have a newspaper liner between the backing board and mirror reporting the trial of Dr Crippen in 1910 (this has now been pasted to the reverse); it has been suggested that this unusually detailed yet small model may have been one of the more expensive items available from the Mauretania~s barber~s shop where souvenirs could be purchased.
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