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HMS Conway School Ship Barometer - School Prize c1921

درهم 1,295

5.0

5 لديه إعلان

تفاصيل السلعة

العمر

10 سنوات وأكثر

الحالة

بدون مشاكل أو عيوب ملحوظة

مدى الإستخدام

تم الاستخدام مرات قليلة

تم النشر بتاريخ: 3 يونيو 2026

الوصف

Oak cased aneroid barometer presented as a prize in 1921 aboard HMS Conway, the naval training school.
The barometer has a diameter of 23cm (9 inches) and a depth of 5cm (2 inches) it weighs 1.59 Kg.
HMS Conway was a naval training school or "school ship"
founded in 1859 and housed for most of her life aboard a 19th-century.
wooden ship of the line. The ship was originally stationed on the Mersey near Liverpool, then moved to the Menai Strait during World War 2.
While being towed back to Birkenhead for a refit in 1953, she ran aground and was wrecked, and later burned.
The school moved to purpose-built premises on Anglesey where it continued for another twenty years.