Lot 265
CASED HALF-HULL BUILDER'S MODEL, S.S. LANTERNA
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Auction: Lots 1 - 335 | 04 September at 10am
Description
the hull painted black to the waterline, in a mirror back mahogany glazed display case, inscribed S.S. LANTERNA./ MINED OFF THE EAST COAST/ OCT. 6TH 1916
Dimensions
case 201cm wide, 42cm high, 22cm deep; ship 172cm long
Footnote
Note: Built in 1882, by the Tyne Iron Shipping Company, and originally called the Carn Brae, the S.S. Lanterna was collier with length 80.8mtrs, beam 11mtrs, draught 5.7mters, and gross tonnage 1685. She was used to carry coal from the coalfields to gasworks around the coast. In 1916 she was sold to the Gas, Light and Coke Co, under the management of Stephenson Clarke & Co, who were the largest firm of collier owners and managers in the UK. They renamed her LANTERNA but she was mined and sunk on Oct. 6th 1916, 2.5 miles NE of Cromer.