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Description: | Scale: 1:480. A miniature waterline model set in a realistic stormy sea and displayed in a table-top case with a painted background. Too small to be of any research value it is nevertheless rather quaint. It was made by A. G. L. Hardy in 1942, while serving as a sub-lieutenant RNVR on board the depicted ship. The case has been signed by him on the underside.
A ?Hills-class? Admiralty armed trawler, ?Bredon?, T-223, was built by the well-known trawler builders, Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, of Kingston-upon-Hull, and launched on the 20 November 1941. With the outbreak of the Second World War hundreds of coal-burning trawlers joined the so-called ?Harry Tate?s Navy?, the Royal Naval Patrol Service, employed on the perilous Northern Patrol, looking for U-boats and German raiders in the North Atlantic. Others escorted Atlantic and Arctic convoys. Hardy himself had a lucky escape. HMS ?Bredon? was sunk by ?U-521? in the North Atlantic on 8 February 1943, shortly after he left her to join the submarine service. On the reverse of the model case Hardy has attached a newspaper cutting: ?Two trawlers lost. The naval trawlers Bredon temporary lieutenant John Reginald Fradgley, and Travern acting skipper Lieutenant Frederick George Blockwell, have been lost.?
CA: BBC.
caption: Bredon - broadside
caption: Bredon - three quarter view | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum waterline models model maker Bredon 1941 models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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