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Description: | 1 in 48 model of the luxury steam turbine yacht 'Albion'. She was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson in 1904 at Wallsend on the River Tyne. She served as a hospital ship and then an auxiliary patrol yacht during World War 1. In 1917 she famously rescued 112 survivors from the torpedoed P & O steamer 'Peshawar'. By 1930 she was owned by the millionaire Sir Thomas Lipton. He renamed her 'Erin' and used her as a base ship during his last attempt at the America Cup. She was broken up in 1936. | 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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