A BUILDER'S-STYLE MODEL FOR THE S.S. FRAMLINGTON COURT, BUILT BY HAWTHORN LESLIE, HEBBURN, FOR THE COURT LINE, 1911

the 50in. laminated and carved hull with lowered companionways, brass portholes, four-bladed propeller, lined wooden decks with moulded and painted fittings including anchors with chains and winches, deck rails, companionways, ventilators, covered hatches, masts rigged with derricks and radio aerial, hosepipes, raised superstructure with glazed bridge with twin binnacles, navigating lamps, stayed funnel, fitted ship's boats in davits, engine room lights, masts with derricks and radio aerial and other details, mounted on brass columns to wooden display base, overall measurements -- 23 x 60 x 14½in. (58.5 x 152.5 x 37cm.)

Registering 4,153 tons, Framlington Court served the Court Line for ten years before being sold to several Greek owners. She was torpedoed by U-181 between Aden and Durban on the 30th of November 1942.

Condition Report

FIne overall condition

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