[BITList] Fwd: The world's most expensive model boat sells for record £162,000 | Daily Mail Online

[Michael Feltham]

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>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3079957/The-world-s-expensive-model-boat-Extraordinarily-detailed-12-foot-replica-ill-fated-ocean-liner-Lusitania-s-sister-ship-sells-record-162-000.html <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3079957/The-world-s-expensive-model-boat-Extraordinarily-detailed-12-foot-replica-ill-fated-ocean-liner-Lusitania-s-sister-ship-sells-record-162-000.html>
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>> The world's most expensive model boat: Extraordinarily detailed 12-foot replica of ill-fated ocean liner Lusitania's sister ship sells for record £162,000
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>> The 12ft long scale model of RMS Mauretania was sold at auction in London for a record-breaking £162,000 
>> Was bought by the Pullman Gallery, a London based dealer of high-end artefacts, who out bid the Liverpool Museum
>> It was created by Swan Hunter which built the ship and its sister vessel Lusitania which was sunk in 1915
>> The model was previously on display in the Science Museum in London before being removed and put into storage
>> By Gemma Mullin <x-msg://40/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Gemma+Mullin> and Jennifer Newton for MailOnline <x-msg://40/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Jennifer+Newton+for+MailOnline>
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