Ship builders half block model of the steam trawler Caeneus

GBP 2,850.00

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Object Description

1:24 scale ship builders half block model of the steam trawler Caeneus, built by Cochrane & Sons, Selby. Date 1920.

35.5 x 127cm.

CAENEUS BUILT 1920 COCHRANE & SONS SHIP BUILDERS SELBY, N’YORK, U.K.

LENGHT B.P. 140′ BREADTH 24′ DEPTH 15’3″ ENGINES 26″ STROKE. BOILER 13’6″ X 10’6″ 200 LBS

S.T. Caeneus was a 339-ton trawler, built by Cochrane & Sons, Selby, Yorkshire, for the Equitable Steam Fishing Co Ltd, of Grimsby, in 1920.

Sold to French owners in 1923 and renamed Petit Poilu; Requisitioned as V.725 by the Kriegsmarine in 1940, she was serving as patrol trawler with the 7th Vorpostenflottille out of Brest when she was bombed and sunk by the Allies whilst steaming off Pauillac, on the 5th of August 1944.

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