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S.S. DARTFORD, waterline ship model
This scenic model is built to a scale of 32':1" and shows the British steamer DARTFORD with a coal hulk lying alongside making ready to supply bunker coal. In wood and glass case.
S.S. DARTFORD (4093 gt). Built 1930 by Smith's Dock, South Shields and owned by British Steamship Company (Watts, Watts & Co. Ltd., London). On the 12 June 1942 when en route from Oban for Sydney in ballast in Convoy ONS-100 she was torpedoed by U-124 and sunk south of Cape Race. Thirty crew were lost from a total of forty seven.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2005.74
Acquisition
Purchase, 15/6/2005
Measurements
case
(mm): 450
case
(mm): 178
case
(mm): 162
Weight
(kg): 1.95
Material
plastic
wood
glass
Location
In store
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