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Washington Model Ship, Brass, 16" X 12" - High Shine

Part # BT-113
This superb Steamship, of 2,000 tons, the first of the United States mail Line to England and Germany, made her trial trip on the 23rd of May in 1847; and, though she was once brought to anchor to afford opportunity for screwing up a bolt which had worked loose, and was deterred from going out to sea by the thick mist prevailing through the day, yet she furnished abundant evidence of her rapidity and ease of motion, and of her admirable adaptation to the career for which she is intended. Although at no time carrying her full head of steam, while the friction of her machinery must be greatly diminished by a few days steady working, yet she made 15½ miles in an hour, against the tide, while a passenger in her main cabin could scarcely perceive that she was moving at all. She left for Cowes and Bremen on the 1st of June, under the command of Capt. Hewitt of the Uttica, for eighteen years one of the most successful and popular Captains of the Liverpool packets. She had 156 passengers engaged for her first voyage.

U.S. Chicago Model Ship, Brass, 16" X 10" - High Shine

Part # BT-143
The first Chicago, a twin-screw protected steel cruiser and the largest of the initial ships of the "New Navy" authorized by Congress in early 1883. The initial ship was named Dolphin, an unarmored cruiser built as an example of a high speed commerce raider. Dolphin was officially designated a dispatch vessel or gunboat. This was a pioneer of the United States Navy's warships of steel. It’s new designs and innovations from hulls to engine and armament were a credit to American technological development that marked the rise of a new seapower. The larger Chicago was meant to have no superior to her type in the world in the combination of speed, endurance and armament. Chicago's keel was laid on 29 December 1883. The Chicago was completed by Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding Works, successor to John Roach & Sons, and she was launched on 5 December 1885. Chicago had a length overall of 342 feet, 2 inches; extreme beam of 48 feet, 3 inches; a normal displacement of 4,500 tons; mean draft of 19 feet; a designed speed of 14 knots; and a complement of 33 officers and 376 enlisted men. Her steel hull was fitted with a ram bow. She had two compound overhead beam reciprocating engines rated at 5,000 horsepower. Auxiliary sail power was supplied by a bark rig spreading 14,000 square feet of canvas. Her steel hull was built in many water-tight compartments and she was illuminated throughout with Edison's new electric system. A steel protective deck (4 inches maximum thickness) covered her machinery space, curving down at the sides to below her waterline.

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