Waterline model; Miniature model

Scale: Unknown. A waterline model of a passenger/cargo vessel. The hull is painted pale grey with brick red at the waterline. The decks are painted a uniform cream with dark grey cargo hatch covers. The foredeck includes a large hatch and a foremast with a derrick rigged to it. The forward cargo deck also has a single hatch served by a pair of derricks. A shelter deck runs beneath forward cargo deck to the stern of the vessel. Above it is a promenade deck. The forward elevation of the superstructure has two open decks with an open bridge above flanked by a pair of navigation like cabins and an enclosed pilot house in the middle. The boat deck has four pairs of lifeboats, on port and starboard sides, painted white with grey covers and stowed on davits. Between the lifeboats there are two funnels painted ochre with black tops and horizontal stripes of black, white, and red. Clustered around each funnel are four ventilators also painted ore. The aft cargo deck has two hatches with a main mast between them and derricks rigged to it. On either side of the main mast are two pairs of lifeboats double stacked and stowed on davits. At the stern there is a small deck house. On the base of the model is '172'.
Reginald Carpenter

Original size: 34 mm x 125 mm x 15 mm