Description

Waterline model of the oil tanker World Glory, showing a tanker with a sharp, flared bow and round stern, with a pilothouse amidships and engine compartment aft. Model has a grey hull with dark green decks and a white superstructure; black smokestack has a white N over red, white, and blue stripes. Mounted on a flat wood base.

The World Glory was launched in 1954 from the Bethlehem Steel shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. The 705-foot-long tanker, owned by the Liberian World Tankers Company, broke up in heavy seas off South Africa in 1968.