29th Apr, 2009 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Popham)
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[M] AN EXCEPTIONAL 16':1" SCALE WOOD AND METAL...
AN EXCEPTIONAL 16':1" SCALE WOOD AND METAL WATERLINE MODEL OF THE FEDERAL WARSHIP KEARSARGE (1864), MODELLED BY DONALD McNARRY
the planked hull sheathed below the waterline, planked deck crowded with detailed armament, fixtures and fittings including inlaid gun tracks, open signal flag lockers, gratings, binnacles, double helm, five open ship's boats swung out in davits, shot racks with shot, belaying rails and pins in use, raked masts with standing and running rigging, yards with foot ropes, furled sails, is set on an undulating green sea with two small sailing craft approaching off her bow and a ship's boat tethered starboard amidships, sealed within a glazed wooden case with brass plates. Overall measurements -- 12 x 23½ x 9¼in. (30.5 x 60 x 23.5cm.)
Ordered under the emergency war programme of 1861, U.S.S. Kearsarge (named for a New Hampshire mountain) was a "Mohican" Class screw sloop. Built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, she measured 198.5 feet with a 33.8 foot beam and a 15.8 foot draught, displacing 1,550 tons, was fitted with a single horizontal back-acting engine developing 842 horse power to give 11 knots and was crewed by 160 men. She had a rather commonplace career in the European Squadron of the U.S. Navy. Under Captain Charles Pickering which included the blockade of the C.S.S. Sumter at Gibraltar, prompting the departure of her Captain, Raphael Semmes, a pre-war shipmate of Pickering's. Thereafter Kearsarge patrolled the Western Atlantic looking for the Alabama, the outcome of which is described in lot 260. Remaining in service for a further thirty years, she was wrecked on Roncador Reef off central America whilst en route to from Haiti to Nicaragua, 2nd February, 1894.
Estimated at £26,000 - £28,000
the planked hull sheathed below the waterline, planked deck crowded with detailed armament, fixtures and fittings including inlaid gun tracks, open signal flag lockers, gratings, binnacles, double helm, five open ship's boats swung out in davits, shot racks with shot, belaying rails and pins in use, raked masts with standing and running rigging, yards with foot ropes, furled sails, is set on an undulating green sea with two small sailing craft approaching off her bow and a ship's boat tethered starboard amidships, sealed within a glazed wooden case with brass plates. Overall measurements -- 12 x 23½ x 9¼in. (30.5 x 60 x 23.5cm.)
Ordered under the emergency war programme of 1861, U.S.S. Kearsarge (named for a New Hampshire mountain) was a "Mohican" Class screw sloop. Built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, she measured 198.5 feet with a 33.8 foot beam and a 15.8 foot draught, displacing 1,550 tons, was fitted with a single horizontal back-acting engine developing 842 horse power to give 11 knots and was crewed by 160 men. She had a rather commonplace career in the European Squadron of the U.S. Navy. Under Captain Charles Pickering which included the blockade of the C.S.S. Sumter at Gibraltar, prompting the departure of her Captain, Raphael Semmes, a pre-war shipmate of Pickering's. Thereafter Kearsarge patrolled the Western Atlantic looking for the Alabama, the outcome of which is described in lot 260. Remaining in service for a further thirty years, she was wrecked on Roncador Reef off central America whilst en route to from Haiti to Nicaragua, 2nd February, 1894.
AN EXCEPTIONAL 16':1" SCALE WOOD AND METAL WATERLINE MODEL OF THE FEDERAL WARSHIP KEARSARGE (1864), MODELLED BY DONALD McNARRY
the planked hull sheathed below the waterline, planked deck crowded with detailed armament, fixtures and fittings including inlaid gun tracks, open signal flag lockers, gratings, binnacles, double helm, five open ship's boats swung out in davits, shot racks with shot, belaying rails and pins in use, raked masts with standing and running rigging, yards with foot ropes, furled sails, is set on an undulating green sea with two small sailing craft approaching off her bow and a ship's boat tethered starboard amidships, sealed within a glazed wooden case with brass plates. Overall measurements -- 12 x 23½ x 9¼in. (30.5 x 60 x 23.5cm.)
Ordered under the emergency war programme of 1861, U.S.S. Kearsarge (named for a New Hampshire mountain) was a "Mohican" Class screw sloop. Built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, she measured 198.5 feet with a 33.8 foot beam and a 15.8 foot draught, displacing 1,550 tons, was fitted with a single horizontal back-acting engine developing 842 horse power to give 11 knots and was crewed by 160 men. She had a rather commonplace career in the European Squadron of the U.S. Navy. Under Captain Charles Pickering which included the blockade of the C.S.S. Sumter at Gibraltar, prompting the departure of her Captain, Raphael Semmes, a pre-war shipmate of Pickering's. Thereafter Kearsarge patrolled the Western Atlantic looking for the Alabama, the outcome of which is described in lot 260. Remaining in service for a further thirty years, she was wrecked on Roncador Reef off central America whilst en route to from Haiti to Nicaragua, 2nd February, 1894.
the planked hull sheathed below the waterline, planked deck crowded with detailed armament, fixtures and fittings including inlaid gun tracks, open signal flag lockers, gratings, binnacles, double helm, five open ship's boats swung out in davits, shot racks with shot, belaying rails and pins in use, raked masts with standing and running rigging, yards with foot ropes, furled sails, is set on an undulating green sea with two small sailing craft approaching off her bow and a ship's boat tethered starboard amidships, sealed within a glazed wooden case with brass plates. Overall measurements -- 12 x 23½ x 9¼in. (30.5 x 60 x 23.5cm.)
Ordered under the emergency war programme of 1861, U.S.S. Kearsarge (named for a New Hampshire mountain) was a "Mohican" Class screw sloop. Built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, she measured 198.5 feet with a 33.8 foot beam and a 15.8 foot draught, displacing 1,550 tons, was fitted with a single horizontal back-acting engine developing 842 horse power to give 11 knots and was crewed by 160 men. She had a rather commonplace career in the European Squadron of the U.S. Navy. Under Captain Charles Pickering which included the blockade of the C.S.S. Sumter at Gibraltar, prompting the departure of her Captain, Raphael Semmes, a pre-war shipmate of Pickering's. Thereafter Kearsarge patrolled the Western Atlantic looking for the Alabama, the outcome of which is described in lot 260. Remaining in service for a further thirty years, she was wrecked on Roncador Reef off central America whilst en route to from Haiti to Nicaragua, 2nd February, 1894.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Popham), 29th Apr, 2009
