| Content | • The model is 100% scratch built with planks-on-frame construction method. The hull is made of wood and painted. The mast is pre-assembled during the rigging process, then removed and fold flat down to minimize the shipping cost. It takes around 5 minutes to assembled the mast.
• Model included the base with the brass nameplate as show photos.
• Dimensions approximate 28.35L x 7.87W x 17.71H (inch) or 72L x 20W x 45H (cm)
• Condition: brand new product.
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HISTORY
African Queen (also known as S/L Livingstone) was the name of two boats used in the 1951 movie The African Queen starring Humprey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. It was filmed in the Belgian Congo on a tributary of the Congo River, and on the Nile in the Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. Two boats were utilised, one in each location. One of the boats is now located in Key Largo, Florida and on February 18, 1992, was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The other is located in Jinja, Uganda.
The Congo boat
This African Queen was a 30-foot steam boat built of riveted sheet iron in 1912 in the United Kingdom for service in Africa on the Victoria Nile and Lake Albert where the movie was filmed in 1950. Originally named Livingstone, she was built for the British East Africa Railway and used from 1912 to 1968. It spent most of its first 50 years operating in the waters of the Ruki River in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo where she was used to transport hunters, mercenaries, and cargo.
According to an article on its 2012 restoration, it was built by Lytham Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., as evidenced by the boiler plate and Lancashire records.
The boat was found in Cairo, Egypt in the 1970s, with coal still in its bilges. Purchased and shipped to the United States, it has had a succession of owners and is currently held in trust. It was refurbished in 2012, including installation of an interior steel hull frame and new boiler, and restored to service as a tourist boat.
The Nile boat
The other African Queen was built in 1950 for the film purposes and was discovered by Yank Evans, a Patagonian mechanical engineer who'd come across what was left of the vessel while working on the roads in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda in 1984. "Yank came across a carcass of a steel boat, in the bushes there just left to rot. He asked the locals what this was and they said well that's the African Queen. So he bought it off the National Parks for $1." Evans, who'd worked on the boat with his son Billy and gave her a steam engine then stored the boat when he moved to Kenya in 1997 and her new home became a trailer in the garden.
Cam McLeay, a Kiwi who lived in Uganda for ten years with his family, purchased the Nile African Queen after hearing her story and set to finishing the restorations and getting the boat's original steam engine functioning and in the water. McLeay and his team rebuilt the African Queen's century-old Brady steam engine and replating the hull and replacing over 100 pipes, sourcing parts mostly from the UK but also from within Uganda. | • The model is 100% scratch built with planks-on-frame construction method. The hull is made of wood and painted. The mast is pre-assembled during the rigging process, then removed and fold flat down to minimize the shipping cost. It takes around 10 minutes to assembled the model.
• Model included the base with the brass nameplate as show photos.
• Dimensions approximate 27.16L x 7.87W x 26.77H (inch) or 69L x 20W x 68H (cm)
• Condition: brand new product.
• Buyer from Alaska, Puerto Rico or Hawaii please contact us for extra shipping cost
• Oversea buyer pays any import taxes/ duties.
• Returned or exchanged products must be in brand-new, original condition, and have all original packaging, materials, and accessories .
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HISTORY
The voyage of the James Caird was an open boat journey from
Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia
in the southern Atlantic Ocean, a distance of 800 nautical miles
(1,500 km; 920 mi). Undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five
companions, its objective was to obtain rescue for the main body
of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–17, trapped
on Elephant Island after the loss of its ship Endurance. History
has come to consider the James Caird's voyage as one of the
greatest small-boat journeys ever accomplished.
In October 1915 the Endurance had been crushed and sunk by
pack ice in the Weddell Sea, leaving Shackleton and the crew
stranded on an unreliable ice surface thousands of miles
from safety. During the following months the party drifted
northward until April 1916, when the floe on which they were
camped broke up. They then made their way in lifeboats to
the remote and inaccessible Elephant Island, where
Shackleton quickly decided that the most effective means of
obtaining relief for his beleaguered party would be to sail
one of the lifeboats to South Georgia.
Of the three lifeboats, the James Caird was deemed the
strongest and most likely to survive the journey. It had
been named by Shackleton after Sir James Key Caird, a Dundee
jute manufacturer and philanthropist, whose sponsorship had
helped finance Shackleton's expedition. Before its voyage
the boat was strengthened and adapted by ship's carpenter
Harry McNish, to withstand the mighty seas of the Southern
Ocean. It carried a six-man crew led by Shackleton, with the
Endurance's captain, Frank Worsley, responsible for
navigation.
After surviving a series of dangers, including a near
capsize, the boat reached South Georgia after a voyage
lasting 16 days. The crew overcame a final peril in securing
a safe landing on the exposed coast. Shackleton was
subsequently able to organise the relief of the Elephant
Island party, and to return his men home without loss of
life. After the end of the First World War the James Caird
was brought back from South Georgia to England, and is now
on permanent display at Shackleton's old school, Dulwich
College.
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• The model is 100% scratch built with planks-on-frame construction method. The hull is made of combination exotic wood and painted. The mast is pre-assembled during the rigging process, then removed and fold flat down to minimize the shipping cost. It takes around 15 minutes to assembled the model.
• Model included the base with the brass nameplate as show pictures.
• Dimensions approximate 32"L x 9"W x 19"H or 81L x 23W x 48H (cm) - The width including the oars.
• Condition: brand new product.
• Buyer from Alaska, Puerto Rico or Hawaii please contact us for extra shipping cost
• Oversea buyer pays any import taxes/ duties.
• Returned or exchanged products must be in brand-new, original condition, and have all original packaging, materials, and accessories .
• Buyer pays return shipping.
| • The model is 100% scratch built with planks-on-frame construction method by master craftsmen. The building of this model is exactly like building the full size canoe with clinker hull construction but the only different thing this is a scale model. The hull is made of wood, the inside hull is constructed with ribs and seats as the original boat. The outside is white painted. Model comes with oar locks, a pair of oars and a brass name plate on the base like shown photos.
• Dimensions approximate 25.2L x 5.11W x 3.93H (inch) or 60L x 13W x 10H (cm)
• Condition: brand new product.
• Buyer from Alaska, Puerto Rico or Hawaii please contact us for extra shipping cost.
• International buyer pays any duty/ import tax.
| • The model is 100% scratch built with planks on frame construction method by master craftsmen. The hull is made of wood as the original real boat. Model comes with a display base like shown photos. The mast fold flat down to minimize the shipping cost and it takes around 5 minutes to assemble the mast.
• Dimensions approximate 25.19L x 9.05W x 23.62H (inch) or 64L x 23W x 60H (cm)
• Condition: brand new product.
• Buyer from Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii or overseas, please contact us for shipping cost.
• Item ship from Houston Texas by Standard shipping USPS/ UPS/ FedEx ground
• International buyer pays any duty/ import tax if any. | • The model is 100% scratch built with planks-on-frame construction method by master craftsmen. The building of this model is exactly like building the full size canoe but the only different thing this is a scale model. The hull is made of wood, the inside hull is constructed with ribs and seats as the original boat. Model comes with oar locks, a pair of oars and a brass name plate on the base like shown photos.
• Dimensions approximate 25.2L x 5.11W x 3.93H (inch) or 60L x 13W x 10H (cm)
• Condition: brand new product.
• Buyer from Alaska, Puerto Rico or Hawaii please contact us for extra shipping cost.
• International buyer pays any duty/ import tax.
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