Ship model
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- OBJECT TYPE
- SCREW STEAMER/PASSENGER FERRY
- DATE
- 1909
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1967.0140.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- EARL GREY
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- WOODEN HULL, DECK, MASTS/ WIRE RIGGING/ BRASS, COPPER & METAL FIXTURES
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 192.0 cm
- Width
- 30.5 cm
- Height
- 75.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Marine Transportation
- Category
- Models
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
THE EARL GREY MAINTAINED THE LINK BETWEEN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND AND THE MAINLAND THAT HAD BEEN PROMISED UPON THEIR JOINING CONFEDERATION. - Function
-
Unknown - Technical
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UP UNTIL THE TIME OF THE EARLY GREY'S CONSTRUCTION, THE COMBINATION OF ICEBREAKER AND FIRST CLASS PASSENGER SERVICE WAS AN UNUSUAL ONE. IT WAS ALSO AN EXCEPTIONALLY SPACIOUS VESSEL FOR ITS TIME. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- INCISED BRASS PLATE IN CASE READS: 'T.S. ICE BREAKING MAIL & PASSENGER STEAMER/ EARL GREY/ BUILT BY/ VICKERS, SONS & MAXIM LTD./NAVAL CONSTRUCTION WORKS/ BARROW-IN-FURNESS/ FOR THE/ CANADIAN GOVERNMENT/ LENGTH BETWEEN PERPENDICULAR 250 FT 0IN/ BREADTH MOULDED 47" 6"/ DEPTH MOULED 26" 6"/ 1.H.P. 6,500/ SPEED 17 KNOTS'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- HULL TO WATERLINE IS RED, ABOVE IS WHITE WITH BRASS PORT HOLES/ FINISHED WOODEN DECK, CABINS, SUPERSTRUCTURE/ YELLOW FUNNEL/ 6 WHITE LIFEBOATS/ BRASS SCREWS
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Ship model, circa 1909, Artifact no. 1967.0140, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1967.0140.001/
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