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Description: | 1 in 48 scale model of the railway ferry 'Saratovskaia Pereprava', built by Armstrong, Mitchell and Company at Low Walker, on the River Tyne, in 1895. She was built to carry trains and passengers across the River Volga in Russia. In winter, she worked with another Armstrong-built ship, the icebreaker tug, 'Saratovski Ledokol', which cleared her passage through the frozen river. The Newcastle Daily Chronicle described her as a 'queer craft' because of her unusual looks. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | made in the North East shipbuilding | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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