UNUSUAL MODEL SHIP
52,000 Matches To lie Used “The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND. October 20. Plenty of dead matches, and plenty of patience will build a ship, said Charlie Harrison. 2nd steward in the freighter Rippingham Grange, now at Auckland. Aged 28. of Tyneside. Mr Hamson has just finished the 4ft 7Ain long hull —22.G00 matchsticks—of a bulk i!on-ore ca»rier. It was work in his spare time.
About another »30.000 matches and another year’s work should finish it. he. said. He began maten modelling in 1947 and has made two oil tankers and a freighter —using 20.000 matches for each. Mr Harrison has met no other seafarers with the same hobby. “And I've found a book on majch modelling. You just start from scratch and become experienced as you work.” he said. [Tools are sandpaper, razor blades and glue. The crew keeps up the match supply.
The finished iron-ore carriei —in a glass case—will be presented to the Darlington Memorial Hospital in County Durham.
“I was injured badly in a traffic accident and the ship is a little appreciation for what the hospital did for me,” Charlie said.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28413, 21 October 1957, Page 15
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