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	Antique Ship Model : The Blue Nose Collectibles: Nautical
	A wonderful nautical item ! A wooden model of the famous Blue Nose .It is in great condition with the hand made sails & it has an unusual mount with 4 cast bronze figures of whales that attach the model to the base. It measures 33” long x 28” high .The following is a little history of the blue nose & more can be found on Wikipedia.Designed by William Roue and built by Smith and Rhuland, Bluenose was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on March 26, 1921, as both a working cod-fishing schooner and a racing ship. This was in response to the defeat of the Nova Scotian Fishing Schooner Delawana by the Gloucester Fishing Schooner Esperanto in 1920. That race was sponsored by the Halifax Herald newspaper.After a season fishing on the Grand Banks, Bluenose defeated Elsie (out of Gloucester, Massachusetts), returning the trophy to Nova Scotia. During the next 17 years of racing, no challenger, American or Canadian, could wrest the International Fishermen's Trophy from her.Fishing schooners became obsolete after World War II, and despite efforts to keep her in Nova Scotia, the undefeated Bluenose was sold to work as a freighter in the West Indies. She foundered on a Haitian reef on January 28, 1946.Bluenose and her captain, Angus Walters, were inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1955, making her the first and only non-human CSHF inductee until 1960, when she was joined by Canadian Hydroplane Champion Miss Supertest III. That same year another honour was bestowed upon the famous sailing ship when a new Canadian National Railways passenger-vehicle ferry for the inaugural Yarmouth-Bar Harbor service was launched as the M/V Bluenose.Bluenose, under full sail, is portrayed on the 1929 Canadian Bluenose postage stamp .
	Year: Early 20th Century
	Item #: MAL-m2413
	Price: $3,650.00 Shipping Continental US: Request Quote Shipping Outside US: Request Quote

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Antique Ship Model : The Blue Nose

Collectibles: Nautical