A RARE LATE 19TH-CENTURY FINELY PRESENTED BUILDER'S
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A RARE LATE 19TH-CENTURY FINELY PRESENTED BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE STEAM LAUNCH TENDER TO THE S.Y. WINTONIA, 1894
with plank on frame carvel hull with brass propeller, brass backed rudder with wooden handle tiller attached to steering chains, centrally mounted triple expansion steam engine with wood lagged cylinder heads and polished brass fittings mounted abaft of boiler plant housing, complete with dials, water level gauge, whistles, rake funnel and grab rails, launch fitted internally with seats and gratings, mounted on two brass pedestals on raised plush-lined base within original glazed oak case -- overall measurements 10 x 28½ x 10in. (25.5 x 72.5 x 25.5cm.)
Launched as the Ladye Maisry in 1894, Wintonia was designed and built by Day, Summers & Co. at Southampton and rigged as a schooner. Registered at 168½ tons gross (109 net & 233 Thames), she measured 138 feet in length with a 19 foot beam and was powered by one of her builder's own compound 2-cylinder engines. Purchased by F.H. Punton of Aberlady, Longniddry, Scotland in 1896 and renamed Wintonia, he kept her throughout the Edwardian era although, by 1914, she was owned by the yacht builders J.G. Fay & Co. of Southampton. Hired briefly by the Admiralty as a harbour tender between November 1914 and April 1915, she was afterwards sold to Captain W.J. Herivel and Lt.-Cdr. S.P. Herivel who owned her jointly until the mid-1920s when she was sold to T.B.F. & W.E. Rees of Athens where she remained until the late 1930s when she disappears from record, believed scrapped.
with plank on frame carvel hull with brass propeller, brass backed rudder with wooden handle tiller attached to steering chains, centrally mounted triple expansion steam engine with wood lagged cylinder heads and polished brass fittings mounted abaft of boiler plant housing, complete with dials, water level gauge, whistles, rake funnel and grab rails, launch fitted internally with seats and gratings, mounted on two brass pedestals on raised plush-lined base within original glazed oak case -- overall measurements 10 x 28½ x 10in. (25.5 x 72.5 x 25.5cm.)
Launched as the Ladye Maisry in 1894, Wintonia was designed and built by Day, Summers & Co. at Southampton and rigged as a schooner. Registered at 168½ tons gross (109 net & 233 Thames), she measured 138 feet in length with a 19 foot beam and was powered by one of her builder's own compound 2-cylinder engines. Purchased by F.H. Punton of Aberlady, Longniddry, Scotland in 1896 and renamed Wintonia, he kept her throughout the Edwardian era although, by 1914, she was owned by the yacht builders J.G. Fay & Co. of Southampton. Hired briefly by the Admiralty as a harbour tender between November 1914 and April 1915, she was afterwards sold to Captain W.J. Herivel and Lt.-Cdr. S.P. Herivel who owned her jointly until the mid-1920s when she was sold to T.B.F. & W.E. Rees of Athens where she remained until the late 1930s when she disappears from record, believed scrapped.
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In fine overall original condition.
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A RARE LATE 19TH-CENTURY FINELY PRESENTED BUILDER'S
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