Doughty Museum – Catalogue of Ship Models 1964.

An original booklet designed and published by Ed. J. Burrow & Co. Ltd., Cheltenham and London (now dissolved) for the Libraries and Museum Committee, County Borough of Grimsby.

The Doughty Museum was situated in Town Hall Square and was named after Mr. Wilfred Vere Doughty, son of Sir George Doughty. When Mr. Wilfred Vere Doughty died, he bequeathed to the Borough of Grimsby his large collection of ship models, marine paintings and china. The museum was opened on 2nd October 1958 by Mrs. M. V. Doughty, the donor’s widow. Today, this collection of ship models resides in the Grimsby Fishing Heritage Museum. Are all the models listed in this booklet (see below) there?

This catalogue is largely the result of painstaking research by Mr. D. Boswell, of the staff of the Public Library. Edward H. Trevitt, Borough Librarian. April 1964.

Section One: Steam Trawlers 1. “Chilian”. GY.564. ** 2. “Valeria”. * 3. “Cydonia”. * 4. “Tenby Castle”. SA.89. * 5. “Hekla”. * 6. “Grimsby Town”. GY.81. * 7. “Thrive”.

Section One: Half models of steam trawlers 8. “Azalea”. 9. “Begonia”. Paired with “Azalea”. Sister-ships. 10. “Fittonia”. 11. “Gardenia”. Paired with “Fittonia”. 12. “Eagle”. 13. “Freesia”. 14. “Bridlington”. 15. “Speeton”. Paired with “Bridlington”. 16. “Morvina”. 17. “Jellicoe”.

Section Two: Small, local fishing smacks 18. “Ellen”. LO.198. Shrimp smack. * 19. “Saucy Jack”. LO.215. * 20. “Mary and Emily”. PZ.533. Mount’s Bay lugger. * 21. “Rachel and Ann”. Scarborough herring boat. 22. “Industry”. RX.94. Rye lugger. * 23. “Pride of the Sea”. Deal lugger. * 24. “Fidelity”. Zulu. * 25. “Pearl”. North Devon herring boat. * 26. “Charles and Thomas”. Yarmouth herring drifter. 27. “Tryit”. BM.44. Brixham smack. ** 28. “Carnation”. Lowestoft steam drifter.

Section Three: Sailing vessels other than fishing boats and warships 29. “Alabama”. American packet. * 30. “Sylph”. Merchant vessel. * 31. “Minden”. * 32. “Malabar”. 33. “Margaret Agnes”. British clipper. * 34. “Thermopylae”. Great rival of the “Cutty Sark”. 35. “Cutty Sark”. Clipper. 36. “Nautilus”. Thames spritsail barge. * 37. “H. B. Hyde”. American soft wood clipper. * 38. “Barossa”. Three-masted barque. 39. Fully rigged ship.

Section Four: Steam vessels other than fishing trawlers and warships 40. “Caroline”. American paddle steamer. 41. “Orinoco”. Wooden paddle ship. 42. “Victoria and Albert”. Yacht. Working model. 43. “Narkunda”. P&O liner. Largest model in the collection. 44. Armed yacht.

Section Five: Warships – English 45. “Elizabeth Jonas”. Henry VIII Navy ship. 46. “Tryal”. Sloop. 47. “Enterprise”. Revenue cutter. 48. “Charon”. 44-gun ship. * 49. “Espiegle”. Sloop. * 50. “Kite”. Sloop. 51. “Caledonia”. British frigate. * 52. “Glasgow”. Turbine cruiser.

Section Five: Warships – Foreign 53. “Le Triomphant”. * 54. “L’Ocean”. * 55. “Lustre”. * 56. Frigate. * 57. “Le Mars” 58. 60-gun man-of-war. * 59. “San Martino”. Spanish flagship of the Great Armada. *

Section Six: Bone Models (made by French prisoners of war 1790-1815). 60. 3-masted frigate. 61. 48-gun frigate “Actden” or “Acteon”. 62. 48-gun frigate “Le Rhin”. * 63. 100-gun three decker. “Lion”. 64. 70-gun man-of-war. “Victory”.

Supplement to the Catalogue of Ship Models in the Doughty Museum

Section One: Trawlers 65. Bremerhaven trawler. (Presented in 1964.)

Half Model Trawlers 66. “King Sol”

Section Two: Small, local fishing boats 67. “Prince George”. 68. “James Letten”. (Probably made in Grimsby. On permanent loan.)

Note: The vessel numbers have been added by Grimsby & Cleethorpes Museum. A ‘*’ means that there is a photograph of the vessel in the booklet.