The item had been a tourist attraction on the quayside at Falmouth Docks after it was donated to the town following an exhibition at the NationalMaritimeMuseum.
The family shipping business, co-owned with his brother Eyal -- who is based in Monaco -- runs the largest fleet of British-flagged ships in the world, and there is a wing at the NationalMaritimeMuseum in Greenwich named after their father Sammy.
An assiduous promoter of his own public image, he would have relished the excitement when staff at Britain's NationalMaritimeMuseum recently unearthed a sketch, roughly drawn in his own hand that demonstrated the tactics he intended to use in his next battle.