Genuine Nautical Artifacts Used on one of the First Great Ocean Liners.

Description

This maritime display is made up of four vintage artifacts: a very old
9" by 21" heavy-brass
Master's Warning Placard
;  an actual 34" section of ship's hand railing;  a boatswain's horn; and a sturdy brass antique passageway lamp, all of which are actual artifacts such as found on the first great ocean-going liners, the steamships, like the
R.M.S. Oceanic, Titanic, and others. The heavy brass placard may be one of the very few, perhaps the only, of its kind ever to be recovered.
Most of the early transatlantic o
cean liners were built by
shipwrights Harland & Wolff, of Belfast,
for The White Star Line, at tremendous cost.  The Oceanic, for example, cost one million pounds to manufacture (that's roughly 113 million pounds in today's market)
.  It
carried more than 1,700 passengers in 3 classes, and a crew of 349.
Her twin propellers
were powered by two huge 4-cylinder engines developing 28,000 horsepower, enabling the enormous ship to make 21 knots.  Her regular route was from
Liverpool to New York.  The Oceanic sailed the seas for several decades, until she ran aground in a storm off the island of Foula in the Shetlands. This display serv
es to remind us of both the historic adventures these great trans-oceanic steamships embarked on,
and
the dreaded perils they faced, and oftentimes even s
uffered, throughout the early days of steamships.
Note: The oak and mahogany mounting board for the artifacts measures 37" wide by 25" tall.  The lantern is wired so that it can be turned on to illuminate the entire display.  There is a thick, heavy multi-wire hanger on the backside to enable easy wall-mounting.  A great nautical display for a den, office, chandlery, museum, or yacht club.