Painted wooden model of the four-masted clipper "Archibald R - Lot 222

Painted wooden model of the four-masted clipper "Archibald Russel", scale 1/16 - 1inch, with its wooden and glass display case Amateur work, 20th century (Cyrus G.Stanistreet, Mariner, Liverpool) H. 45 cm W.: 63.5 cm D. 26 cm. Provenance: Claude Verite Collection, Christies Paris, sale 3618 June 24, 2014, Lot 132 The Archibald Russell is a steel cargo ship, tall ship and four-masted barque built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock, for John Hardie & Son, Glasgow. She was in service from 1905 to 1939. She transported coal, nitrate, wheat and other goods around the world (South America, Chile, Australia) to Europe via Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope. She was the last tall ship built on the River Clyde in Scotland, and one of the few with two long roll keels (hull appendages limiting roll). In 1923, she was sold for £5,500 to shipowner Gustav Erikson of Mariehamn, Åland (Baltic Sea), famous for the fleet of Windjammers he operated, mainly trading grain from Australia to Europe. In June 1941, Archibald Russell was arrested by the British government, after Finland joined the war on Germany's side. For the rest of the war, the ship was used as a store ship in Goole, Yorkshire. After the war, the ship was returned to her Finnish owner (in 1948), sold to the British Iron and Steel Corporation in 1949, and scrapped that year by J.J. King & Co. of Gateshead-on-Tyne.