Caldercraft SS Talacre Ready Built Model Boat

The Ready Built Caldercraft SS Talacre model boat kit is a typical single hatch coaster used in the coal trade of a type that was found by the hundreds around the coast of the U.K. in the golden era of steam. Designed for Point of Ayr Collieries by Crichton Thompson & Co Ltd. of London she was built by Crabtree &Co. of Great Yarmouth in 1917. Talacre was named after a small village near the colliery. Talacre was finally scraped in 1959 by the Hammond Lane Foundry in Dublin. Realism leaps out of the completed model as if a turn of a valve will start the anchor windlass or the cargo winch clattering away and the lagged steam pipes to begin steaming and drying out.

This model is ready assembled and sold as seen. Due to the fragile nature of the model it is in store collection only

Manufacturer: Caldercraft
Model: 7005RB SS Talacre

Length: 863mm
Beam 152mm