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Description: | Scale: 1:48. A full hull shipbuilder's model of the tanker 'Caspia' (1928), realistically painted and displayed on four pillar supports in its original display case with two information plaques. The model is highly detailed and depicts all the deck and superstructure fittings such as derricks, hatch covers, winches and ventilators. The vessel has a three island layout with a foredeck central superstructure that accommodates the bridge and aft deck that accommodates the single funnel. There is a raised connecting companionway that links the three islands. The funnel is painted in Baltic Trading Company colours which are black with a white band. Many of the fittings are gold or silver plated. The windows and port holes are depicted using surface-silvered mirrored glass.
Built by Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Ltd. for the Overseas Oil and Transport Company (later the Baltic Trading Company), ?Caspia? (1928) was 412 feet in length and 6018 tons. She was en route from Haifa to Tripoli, Syria, with 7000 tons of benzene, on 16 April 1942, when she was torpedoed in the bow. Sinking in flames, the captain, Cecil Henry Humphries, 24 crewmembers and a gunner were killed. The survivors were picked up by two Royal Naval launches and landed at Beirut.
The Caspia (Yard No 1036) was very similar to the Shirvan (1925), Shirak (1926) and Varand (1927) also built by Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd at Newcastle, see models SLR1475 and SLR1483. The loss of the Caspia is recorded on the Baltic Trading Co Ltd honours board HRA0021.
The Caspia (1928) was built for the Overseas Oil and Transport Company (later the Baltic Trading Company). She was 412 feet in length and 6018 tons. She was en route from Haifa to Tripoli, Syria, with 7000 tons of benzene, on 16 April 1942, when she was torpedoed in the bow. Sinking in flames, the captain, Cecil Henry Humphries, 24 crewmembers and a gunner were killed. The survivors were picked up by two Royal Naval launches and landed at Beirut.
CA: AAA.
caption: 'Caspia' (1928) - starboard broadside
caption: 'Caspia' (1928) - port three quarter view
caption: 'Caspia' (1928) - starboard quarter view
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | 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 full hull ship models Caspia 1928 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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