Meet the Makers - Model Display Table 10

Table 10 - Place 1

Model Owner: Eric Williams

Model Builder: Eric Williams

Vessel: Wollongbar

Vessel Type: Passenger Steamship

Scale: 72 scale 

Builder: Lithgows, Port Glasgow - North Coast Steam Navigation Company

Length: 87m

Beam: 12.8 m

Displacement: 2240 tons

Launch Date: 1922

Launched in 1922 to replace another ship of the same name. She was torpedoed by the Japanese Navy submarine I-180 off Crescent Head, New South Wales while in a convoy on 29 April 1943. When she sank, thirty-four crew members died and five of her crew waited until they were rescued by two fishermen.

Table 10 - Place 2

Model Owner: Eric Williams

Model Builder: Eric Williams

Vessel: SS Camberwell

Vessel Type:

Scale: 72 Scale 

Builder: Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co Ltd Willington Quay

Length: 74 m

Beam: 11 m

Displacement: 1568 tons

Launch Date: 16 March 1924

The SS Camberwell was a collier and was used around the British coast.

Table 10 - Place 3

Model Owner: Eric Williams

Model Builder: Eric Williams

Vessel: John Brown (Champion)

Vessel Type: Tugboat

Scale: 100:1

Builder: Australian shipping and mining firm J & A Brown.

Length: 41 m

Beam: 4 m

Displacement: 306 tons

Launch Date: 1895

The steel steam tug CHAMPION was known as 'John Brown's Yacht', and was lavishly fitted out with a built-in piano in the saloon for Brown's guests on deep sea fishing excursions. The CHAMPION was famous throughout its working life for salvage feats and for difficult jobs. It was bought by Waratah Tug and Salvage Company in January 1953, but sank at its berth in Newcastle in February 1954.