Can I have help identifying this ship please?

[Borgster93]

Hopefully I'm in the right thread to ask this?

This is only a long shot but I'm hoping someone might have some information to point me in the right direction. This very old remote control boat was made about 60 years ago. It was hand scratched built by someone who unfortunately has passed away and their daughter sold this to me.

I was told that he had seen this vessel in Southampton docks all those years ago he took photos of it before he built it but those photos were probably long gone by now.

I'm trying to figure out what the name of this vessel was unfortunately as you can see there is no name displayed the ship.

Does anyone recognise this at all? As far as I'm aware this is an early 20th century steamer. Im also aware the orange life rafts are probably wrong but who knows as he might of seen them back in 1965 when they started to come in to use.

Any help will be really appreciated. Thanks

 

[Bryian]

It looks like an old ship model from Vic Smeed plans which were popular in the 1960’s

 

[Borgster93]

It looks like an old ship model from Vic Smeed plans which were popular in the 1960’s

Any other reference you can think of?

 

[polydoc]

Looks like a small version of the US Presidential yacht Sequoia.

 

[Borgster93]

Looks like a small version of the US Presidential yacht Sequoia.View attachment 497321

Yeh I can see some features similar.

 

[Zzyzx01]

Looks like a small version of the US Presidential yacht Sequoia.View attachment 497321

This is a picture of the USS Williamsburg (AGC-369), not the Sequoia.
...henry

 

[jeep]

Nice looking "whatever it is". Reminds me of a small ferry once used around these islands in BC.

 

[SimonS]

also looks like this older Dumas

 

[Kilo66]

Zzyzz01 seems to have beaten me to the post. I'd bet my lunch money the photo in question does indeed depict the USS Williamsburg, originally the yacht Aras. If memory serves (no guarantees there!) she was launched around 1930, 1931 and purchased by the US Navy for conversion to a patrol gunboat around the end of 1941. Following yeoman service in various capacities during WWII, she replaced Potomac as the presidential yacht, providing a nautical office for Truman & Eisenhower. She was stricken from the lists in 1962, I think, and after a variety of civilian employments, sank at pier side in Italy in the 20-teens. I have the same B/W photograph of her in her glory days. The image originally ran in the July, 1950 edition of All Hands magazine.

Looks like a small version of the US Presidential yacht Sequoia.View attachment 497321

 

[CraigJ]

Looks like a small version of the US Presidential yacht Sequoia.View attachment 497321

looks like ???