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PRESENTATION HALF HULL MODEL OF SIDE WHEEL STEAM VESSEL OF 1861

 

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PRESENTATION HALF MODEL OF SIDE WHEEL STEAM VESSEL OF 1861 

          Backboard: 46" L x 11 1/2" H x 7/8" T         Half Hull: 40 1/2" L x 5 1/2" D x 4" Depth                  Weight:  15 lbs
 
Presented is an authentic builder's model which was used to celebrate the launching of a vessel namer CRUIZER on October 5th 1861. This type half model were given to the owner or kept by the builder to be used for advertising or as a historic record of their builds. True builders models like this are very scarce and its rich, mellow patina of age makes a beautiful wall hanging in any  room .
 
The half model's hull is made of 7 lifts (one plank each) of Mahogany. The model deck is varnished and there is a pilothouse and other fittings on it. The cap rail of the bulwark and rubbing strake are possibly ebony or are painted black. The cutwatrer, keel and rudder are possibly finished in the same fashion as is the trim around the paddle wheel cage.
 
The design is typical for side wheel steamers of this period. There is a straight forefoot and round hollowed bow transitioning into round bilges, rectangular center section where the paddle wheel is positioned. This tapers into a streamlined keel with a round counter above.. The 40 1/2 inch hull is mounted on a backboard 46" long, which is varnished. The name CRUIZER is painted in faded red above the upper horizontal beam of the cage. Painted in gold on the viewer's left at the bottom of the backboard is LAUNCHED 5th DAY OF OCTOBER 1861.


       Showing close-up views of bow, aft quarter sections and bottom
 
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                                       Back of backboard showing fragment of label

CONDITION: All the wood is In overall excellent condition, but there are some small parts that have fallen off over the years. The hull and backboard are varnished which has acquired a pleasant golden patina. The trim on the model is either ebony or painted black, or maybe a combination of both. The finish is in overall excellent condition. On deck there is evidence that a smoke stack was fitted forward of the aft deck house and aft of the pilothouse. There is no indication that the paddle machinery was fitted under the cage. There are cleats on the back and the front of the cage that served as a ladder and one of the aft steps is missing. There are four holes drilled in the backboard for mounting. Metal hardware has been added for that purpose. The name CRUIZER is painted in what is now faded red over the horizontal cross bar of the cage. For a 150 year old model it is in remarkably fine condition.

Closeup view from the bow of the pilothouse
Closeup from the stern of the paddle wheel cage

Looking down at the deck and pilothouse
Looking up at the bottom of the cage

 

USS MALVEN formerly Confederate Side Wheeler ELLA and ANNIE

 
HISTORY OF SHIP: We have been unable to identify the a side wheel steamer that was namer CRUIZER that was launched on October 5, 1861. This is likely because the ship was registered in a country such as Bermuda or Grenada whose records have not as yet been digitized. However, we have come up with a ship that closely matches the design of this half hull and its particulars.
 
This ship was Launched at the yard of Harlan and Hollingsworth Company at Wilmington, Delaware on 15 October 1860 for account of the Charles Morgans Southern Steamship Company as the William G. Hewes. She had displacement of 1,477 tons or new register tonnage of 1,230 tons. Her dimensions were 2394x 33x 10 or 72,95 x 10 x 3,0 meters. Her crew numbered 68 men. The vertical beam steam engine and one boiler supplied 500 hp. After her commissioning she went into service between New York City and New Orleans on  11 January 1861. 
 
As William G. Hewes she was seized by the Governor of Louisiana on 28 April 1961 and put into service as a Confederate blockade runner until 5 April a year later. When in Naval service her armament consisted of 4-20 pound breech loaders and 8-12 pound smooth bores. When Admiral David Farragut captured New Orleans, Louisiana, in April 1862, Hewes shifted her operations from there to Charleston, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. She was then renamed Ella and Annie. Operating under the Importing & Exporting Co. of South Carolina, she renewed blockade running to Bermuda in April 1863 un til being captured by the Northern forces off New Inlet, North Carolina, on 8 November 1863 . The Union navy bought her and placed her provisionally in service on 10 December as the USS Malvern and on 9 February of the next year she was commissioned under that name. On 24 October, she was auctioned at New York to S.G. Bogart who sold her back to her original owner Charles Morgans, Southern Steamship Company, and who restored her original name, William G. Hewes. Thereafter, she was used as a freighter/passenger ship. In 1878 she was transferred to the Louisiana & Texas RR also property of Morgan to be used as a West Indies fruit trader until she was lost during a gale in 20 February 1895 on Colorado Reef off the Cuban Coast.
 
PROVENANCE: Bought in New England at auction.

Back of backboard showing fragment of label

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