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109 - A CONTEMPORARY 1:160 SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE ILL-FATED TANKER REGENT TIGER, TORPEDOED 8TH SEPTEMBER 1939
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£400 - 600 (€470 - 720)Sale fees
A CONTEMPORARY 1:160 SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE ILL-FATED TANKER REGENT TIGER, TORPEDOED 8TH SEPTEMBER 1939 modelled by Christopher Pitcher in 1942, with carved 35in. hull finished in two-tone grey overall and complete with wood and metal fittings, ventilators, lifeboats in davits, rigged masts with navigation lamps, pipework, railings, quick-firing gun on platform behind funnel and other details, mounted on polished wooden base with plate within original wooden glazed case, overall -- 19½ x 42 x 10in. (49.5 x 107 x 25.5cm.) Built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, the 10,176 ton tanker M.V. Regent Tiger was one of the earliest casualties of World War II when she was torpedoed about 400nm west of Bishops Rock by U-29 on the 8th September 1939, just five days after War was declared between Trinidad and Avonmouth with 14,000 tons of gasoline. At 12.15 the U-boat fired warning shots over the bow and allowed a general evacuation. Captain William Roberts, 40 crew members and three passengers were picked up after a few hours by the S.S. Jean Jadot, which had heard their distress call and landed them at Ramsgate on 11 September. The Jean Jadot was sunk by a torpedo in 1943.
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