30th Apr, 2014 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Seraph)
306
[M] A BUILDER'S HALF BLOCK MODEL FOR THE S.Y....
carved from laminated yellow pine and lined with boot top, rudder, main and steering propeller shafts, mounted on an ebonised display board inscribed s.s yacht Aries -- 6 x 38in. (15 x 96.5cm.)
Aries was built for Sir James Ramsden, one of the industrial magnates of Victorian England, in 1873. Designed as a three-masted iron screw schooner by Ramsden himself, Aries was constructed by the Barrow Ship Building Company at Barrow-in-Furness where Sir James was a pivotal figure. Registered at 186½ tons gross (107¼ net). Aries measured 145 feet in length with a 20 foot beam and her screw (and the distinctive small steering screw) were driven by a compound two-cylinder engine of 50h.p. Subsequently passing into the ownership of the 10th Duke of Leeds, one of the most distinguished yachtsmen of his day and later Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Aries became a familiar sight at Cowes throughout the 1890s and the golden summers of the Edwardian era. Still flying the Leeds colours when war was declared in August 1914, Aries was immediately offered to the Admiralty for wartime duties and, armed with two 3-pounders, was accepted into service as an Auxilliary Patrol Yacht on 12th September. The fifty-three year old Duke skippered her for almost a year during which she led a small patrol flotilla initially off the Tyne and later in the Dover and Downs area. Shortly after the Duke was transferred to another command however, Aries was sunk by a mine on 31st October 1915 whilst patrolling near the South Goodwin Lightship with the loss of five officers and seventeen men.
Sold for £1,364
Estimated at £800 - £1,200
(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)
Condition Report
Marked and blemished overall, some wear along edges of hull and board.
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carved from laminated yellow pine and lined with boot top, rudder, main and steering propeller shafts, mounted on an ebonised display board inscribed s.s yacht Aries -- 6 x 38in. (15 x 96.5cm.)
Aries was built for Sir James Ramsden, one of the industrial magnates of Victorian England, in 1873. Designed as a three-masted iron screw schooner by Ramsden himself, Aries was constructed by the Barrow Ship Building Company at Barrow-in-Furness where Sir James was a pivotal figure. Registered at 186½ tons gross (107¼ net). Aries measured 145 feet in length with a 20 foot beam and her screw (and the distinctive small steering screw) were driven by a compound two-cylinder engine of 50h.p. Subsequently passing into the ownership of the 10th Duke of Leeds, one of the most distinguished yachtsmen of his day and later Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Aries became a familiar sight at Cowes throughout the 1890s and the golden summers of the Edwardian era. Still flying the Leeds colours when war was declared in August 1914, Aries was immediately offered to the Admiralty for wartime duties and, armed with two 3-pounders, was accepted into service as an Auxilliary Patrol Yacht on 12th September. The fifty-three year old Duke skippered her for almost a year during which she led a small patrol flotilla initially off the Tyne and later in the Dover and Downs area. Shortly after the Duke was transferred to another command however, Aries was sunk by a mine on 31st October 1915 whilst patrolling near the South Goodwin Lightship with the loss of five officers and seventeen men.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Seraph), 30th Apr, 2014
