model twin-screw steamship normannia

Made:
1911

Model ship, half-hull, Twin-Screw Steamship 'Normannia', London & South Western Railway/Southern Railway Southampton & Lymington section, to Le Havre, prototype built by Fairfields, Govan, launched 9th Noveber 1911, sunk at Dunkirk when serving as a military transport, 30th May 1940. (Note: 'Normannia' and her sister ship 'Hantonia' were the first single-reduction geared-turbine cross-channel steamers.)

Details

Category:
Railway Models
Object Number:
1975-7980
type:
model ship
credit:
British Railway Board