A Shipbuilder’s Model of the S. C. Breifond and Aztec, Sister Ships

This finely detailed scale model, contained in its original glazed presentation case, has come by near direct descent from the commissioners of the piece itself, the Sunderland yard of Willix Doxford and Sons Ltd. The model represents a new type of screw steamer which garnered much attention at the time due to its revolutionary system for storing the oil they transported below decks. Indeed much of an issue of The Shipbuilder magazine, published in October 1915, was dedicated to the vessels and their design. In the October edition of “The Shipbuilder” there is a full description, with detailed plans, of the special oil- carrying steamers Breifond and Aztec, recently completed at Sunderland. These vessels were particularly interesting to shipbuilders as instead of carrying their oil cargoes in bulk in the holds, the norm at the time, large cylindrical tanks were built in the holds to contain the oil. The merits of the ‘new’ system, which was being fairly extensively adopted, particularly in the case of cargo steamers which were being converted into bulk-oil carriers, are discussed at considerable length.

Estimation:43.756,16€

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