HALF SHIP MODEL OF THE S.S. ANSELM
1930S
£350
Auction: 4 July 2018 at 11:00 BST
Description
mounted in a shadow-box frame with a painted background and cotton-wool smoke, signed by F.C Valle/ Leixoes
Dimensions
Overall 134cm long, 66cm high
Footnote
Note: The S.S. Anselm was built in Dumbarton as a passenger ship in 1935, but converted to a troop transport vessel in 1940. She was sunk by a torpedo from a German U-boat off the coast of the Azores in 1941 with the loss of 254 lives.