Shipyard model - Oil tanker SHAPUR 1922. Armament "ASSOCIATI - Lot 12

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Shipyard model - Oil tanker SHAPUR 1922. Armament "ASSOCIATI - Lot 12
Shipyard model - Oil tanker SHAPUR 1922. Armament "ASSOCIATION PETROLIERE". The model is very large. It is highly detailed and includes: fore and aft masts, topgallant masts, standing rigging (shrouds and bows, lower shrouds, props and cap shrouds), running rigging, winches and hoists, anchors, windlasses and hawsers. Her fore and aft castles, roof, gangway and wheelhouse, topped by a barrel-mounted compass, railings, stanchions, lifelines and crown buoys, chimney and whistle, windsocks and aspirators, lights and lanterns, lifeboats and lifeboats, davits, boat hoists and gripes, deck valves, portholes and scuttles, accommodation ladders, four-bladed propeller. Bulwarks and superstructures are painted white. Lively work painted in bronze, dead work in black. The model rests on two bronze bracers (silver plating), which in turn rest on a solid mahogany molded base, to which the builder's plate with the boat's main specifications is attached. Materials: wood, metal, vegetable fiber and metal ropes, paint and varnish. Category: Antique ship model - Shipyard model - Shipowner model. Scale 1/50. Overall length: 2.40 m Beam: 0.36 m. Note: SHAPUR, a 5850-ton oil tanker, was built in 1922 by William Beardmore & Company in Dalmur, Scotland, for the Petroleum Association. She was 106.73 m long and 15.02 m wide. Its engine power was 1720 hp, and its maximum speed under load was 11.3 knots.
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