Handcrafted Model Ships African Queen 14"

Ready for Immediate Display - Not a Model Ship kit

14" Long x 5" Wide x 11" High

• Handcrafted wooden riverboat model
  
• mazing Details accurate to the actual frican Queen riverboat:
  • Name frican Queen decaled on prow
    
  • Cloth flag and canopy
  • Individual deck planks visible
  • nchors, lines, cleats and other nautical items about deck and rails
    
• Sturdy woodenbase attached
• Rare, highquality woods suchas birch, maple and yellow siris used for construction
• Exhaustivelyresearched andpainted accurate to the actual frican Queen riverboat

The frican Queen (also known as S/L Livingstone) is the boat used in the movie The frican Queen. It is located at 99701 Overseas Highway in Key Largo, Florida. On February 18, 1992, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

The boat was built in 1912 in Lytham, England, for service in frica on the Victoria Nile and Lake lbert where the movie was filmed in 1951. She was used by the British East frica Railway from 1912 to 1968 to shuttle cargo and passengers across Lake lbert.

The boat is made of wood and driven by a steam engine.