Lot 417: Richard Henry Neville-Cumming (fl.1888-1891)

Pindari under sail and steam passing Dover
signed and dated 'R.H. Neville-Cumming/1891' (lower right)
pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with white
28 3/4 x 51 1/4 in. (73 x 130.5 cm.)

with The Boydell Galleries, Liverpool.

Having made the decision to change over to steam and taken delivery of their first steamer Ameer (see lot 415) and, soon afterwards, her sister Gaekwar, Brocklebanks then placed an order for a quartet of twin-screw steamers led by Pindari. Like many Brocklebank ships, Pindari was built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast and was launched on 17 t h October 1891. Registered at 5,713 tons gross (3,696 net), she measured 446 feet in length with a 49 foot beam and could steam at 11 knots from power provided by two of her builder's own triple-expansion engines. Apart from an incident in November 1894, when she came home from Calcutta to Dundee on a single screw after the failure of the other, and a short spell as a Boer War troop transport in 1900, her career was relatively uneventful. Transferred into Jenkins' Shire Line in 1906, when she was renamed Breconshire, she was then sold to Japanese owners in 1911 and rechristened Shinyo Maru. Finally laid-up in 1923, she was subsequently broken up in Japan when she was no longer fit for sea.

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