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'Pamir' 4 masted barque
Hauling up a shark; 4 masted barque 'Pamir' [steel 4 mast barque, 3020 gross, 2777 net tons. 316.0 x 46.0 x 26.2. Built 1905 (10) Blohm and Voss, Hamburg. Owners: F Laiesz, registered Hamburg. From 1931 until 1951 owned by Gustaf Erikson, although operated by the Union SS Co. of NZ Ltd, during WW2 sold to German owners for use as a training vessel and lost at sea in 1957]
'Mozart' 4 masted barquentine
Looking down on the head sails; 4 masted barquentine 'Mozart' [steel 4 mast barquentine, 2003 gross, 1875 net tons. 262.9 x 40.1 x 24.2. Built 1904 (2) Grangemouth and Greenock Dockyard Co. Ltd. Greenock. Owners: AC de Freitas & Co., registered Hamburg]
'Hawaiian Isles' 4 masted barque
4 masted barque 'Hawaiian Isles' running Eastingdown [steel 4 mast barque, 2097 tons. 270.0 x 43.1 x 23.6. Built 1892 (2) C Connell and Co. Glasgow for A Nelson, registered Honolulu, sold 1910 and renamed 'Star of Greenland' by Alaska Packers Association, sold 1929 and renamed 'Abraham Rydberg' and converted into sail training ship and as such shown in Lloyds; 2179 tons, owners: Rederi A. and Sunnan B, registered Stockholm. During WW2 became the Portugese 'Foz Do Douro' and engaged in Red Cross work and was converted to an auxiliary twin screw motor ship. Masts reduced after the war and made a full powered ship. Laid up at Lisbon in 1953. Ref. 5 (Vol. 2) mentions sale price in 1910, and speed. Ref. 8 considerable attention under the name of 'Abraham Rydberg' SB. Vol. XIV (New Series) notes visit to Melbourne of 'Foz Do Douro' page 153. Vol. XVIII (NS page 271/2) service for Matson Company and subsequent outline history. Vol. XVI (NS page 124 in relation to sail training in item re. ships on stamps)]
'Amphitrite' iron ship
Figurehead, 'Amphitrite' iron ship. [iron ship, 1777tons, ON81833, 264.9 x 39.5 x 23.4. Built 1882 (3) R. Duncan & Co. Port Glasgow. Owners CS Caird, reg. Greenock, later MacVicar, Marshall & Co. Early 1900's passed to Italian owners without change of name.]
'Derry Castle' iron ship
Figurehead, wreck of 'Derry Castle' iron ship, Auckland Island March 28th 1887.
'Mary Miller' wooden barque
Figurehead, 'Mary Miller' wooden barque [wooden 3 mast barque, 272 gross tons, ON22026. 117.0 x 23.9 x 13.6. Built 1859 Leith. Owners: formerly owned in Leith: Dec. 1862 Jas. Fowler and Robert Gill, registered Melbourne: Dec. 1862 Anderson and Campbell registered Sydney: Dec. 1866 GW Allen, Oct. 1869 William Wright. Oct. 1871 William Wells and Thomas Pickhaver, registered Port Adelaide. July 1876 M Vallentine and others: Oct. 1877 William Wells. 1879 Adelaide Steam Tug Co. Ltd. and converted to a hulk which was broken up in 1911]
'Lord Canning' iron ship
Figurehead, 'Lord Canning' iron ship [iron ship, 1518 tons. ON60038. 224.2 x 37.8 x 23.5. Built 1867 (12) T Royden and Son, Liverpool. Owners: John Farnworth, registered Liverpool then CW Kellock and Co., registered Liverpool]
'Ponape' steel 4 masted barque
Figurehead, 'Ponape' steel 4 masted barque [steel 4 mast barque, 2464 gross, 2365 net tons. 293.4 x 41.8 x 23.7. Built 1903 (7) Soc. Esercizio Bacini, Genoa as 'Regina Elena' for Cav. P Milesi reigstered Genoa. Later F Laiesz, registered Hamburg and renamed 'Ponape', then became the Norwegian 'Bellhouse' and later reverted to 'Ponape'. Preserved in Sweden. In Gustaf Erikson's fleet from 1929-1936]
'Barossa' barque
Dining saloon; barque 'Barossa'.
'Carmanian' barque
'Crossing the line' ceremony. British barque 'Carmanian'. [steel ship later barque 1867 tons, ON95406, 260.0 x 38.7 x 23.6. Built 1897 (5) R Williamson and Sons Workington. Owners Andrada Sailing Ship Co. Ltd (EF and W Roberts) reg. Workington, c.1910 to Norwegian owners without change of name.]
'Kobenhavn' steel 5 masted barque
Figurehead, 'Kobenhavn' steel 5 masted barque [steel auxiliary 5 mast barque, 3901 gross, 3229 net tons. 369.8 x 49.3 x 26.9. Built 1921 (9) Ramage and Ferguson, Leith machinery aft, single screw 4 cylinder diesel by Burmeister and Wain, Copenhagen. Owners: East Asiatic Company , registered Copenhagan, sail training ship for the company. Missing left Buenos Aires Dec. 14, 1928 for Melbourne, spoken 8 days later and then disappeared. 60 lost including 45 cadets]
'Eskdale' ship
Officers, apprentices and visitors on board ship 'Eskdale'. Elaborately carved boom-board [iron ship, 1285 tons, later 1313 tons. ON69238, 225.5 x 36.2 x 22.1. Built 1873 (2) Whitehaven Shipbuilding Co, Whitehaven. Owners: John D Newton, registered Liverpool. 1890 W Lowden and Co.]
'Lingard' barque
Captain, wife and child and pilot; Norwegian barque 'Lingard' [steel 3 mast barque. 1081 gross, 999 net tons. 216.0 x 34.0 x 18.1. Built 1893 (6) Fevig Jernskibsbyggeri, Grimstad. Owners: BA Olsen, registered Risor, Norway]
'General Gordon' iron 4 masted barque
Figurehead, 'General Gordon' iron 4 masted barque [iron 4 mast ship, 1690 tons. ON93678, 258.0 x 38.8 x 22.7. Built 1886 (5) R&J Evans and Co. Liverpool. Owners L Davies and Co. Registered Liverpool c.1910 to Norway without change of name]
'HMS Nelson' wooden ship
Figurehead, 'HMS Nelson' wooden ship.
'Sir Galahad' British vessel
Figurehead, Unknown British vessel believed to be 'Sir Galahad'. In the photograph the figurehead is mounted on the outside wall of the old Seaman's Church Institute, New York; probably prhotographed in 1950's. The carving is now inside the New Church building near the South Street Seaport Museum, New York.
'Brodick Castle' iron ship
Figurehead, 'Brodick Castle' iron ship.
'Caithness-Shire' iron 4 masted ship
Figurehead, 'Caithness-Shire' iron 4 masted ship. [steel barque, 1641 tons. ON104546, 247.3 x 37.6 x 22.6. Built 1894 (7) Russell and Co, Port Glasgow, Owners T. Law and Co. reg. Glasgow. Wrecked on Watling Island, Bahamas, Feb. 4, 1911.]
'Pommern' 4 masted barque
Manning one of the winches; 4 masted barque 'Pommern' [steel 4 mast barque, 2456 gross, 2323 net tons. 302.0 x 43.2 x 24.7. Built 1903 J Reid and Co. Ltd. Glasgow. Owners: B Wencke and Son registered Hamburg. Later P Laeisz, registered Hamburg and renamed 'Pommern'. Allocated to Greece as war reparations 1922 to Gustaf Erikson, preserved in a nautical museum at Mariehamn, taken out of service in 1953]
'Edith Alice' wooden ketch
Figurehead, 'Edith Alice' wooden ketch [wooden 2 mast barge, ON57508. 39 tons. 61.6 x 17.7 x 6.1. Built 1869. Thomas Inches, Huon River Tasmania. Made into an auxiliary vessel in 1927 and now 2 mast ketch. 41 gross, 33 net tons. Owners Thomas Inches, registered Hobart. Oct 1871. Charles Heath registered Port Adelaide by 1919 EH Heath and others, 1924 C Hipkins 1928 J Davis, 1934 TD Garnaut, 1936 MJ Davies. Broken up at Port Adelaide and register closed in 1938]
'Killoran'
Splicing a new steel fore topgallant stay on board 'Killoran'.
'Imperator Alexander' ship
"Running the easting down'; ship 'Imperator Alexander' with decks awash.
'Priwall' 4 masted barque
Making up sails preparatory to sending them aloft to be bent' 4 masted barque 'Priwall' [steel 4 mast barque, 3105 gross, 2849 net tons. 323.0 x 47.2 x 26.3. Built 1918 Blohm and Voss, Hamburg. Owners: Reederei F Laiesz G m b H, registered Hamburg. Laid up in Valparasio at outbreak WW2, c. 1942 taken over by Chilean Government and renamed 'Lautaro' and destroyed by fire off the coast of Peru in 1945]
'Eden Holme' barque
Men at the wheel; barque 'Eden Holme' [iron 3 mast barque 818 tons. ON62035. 201.8 x 32.2 x 18.5. Built 1875 (1) Bartram, Haswell and Co,. Sunderland. Owners Hine Bros. registered Maryport. Wrecked Hebe Reef, Tamar River, Tasmania Jan. 6th, 1907]
'Great Admiral' wooden ship
Figurehead, 'Great Admiral' wooden ship [wooden ship rigged vessel, 1576 gross, 1402 net tons. ON(US)85007, 214.2 x 40.3 x 25.2. Built 1869. ER Jackson, East Boston, USA. Owners: 1897 ER Sterling, registered New York. Engaged from this time in the Pacific delivering cargoes of timber. Wrecked Dec. 1907 on the West Coast of South America. Much additional material on early career in 'The Downeasters' by Basil Lubbuck, Brown, Son and Ferguson, Glasgow, reprinted 1971]
'Mozambique' wooden barque
Figurehead, 'Mozambique' wooden barque.
'Padua'
'Padua', in the South Atlantic, 1928.
'Marie' wooden barque
Figurehead, 'Marie' wooden barque.
'Lawhill' 4 masted barque
'Lawhill' 4 masted barque - looking forward from the poop deck of 'Lawhill' after she had been abandoned at Laurenco Marques [steel 4 mast barque, 2942 tons. ON99215, 317.4 x 45.0 x 25.1 Built 1892 (9) WB Thompson and Co. Ltd. Dundee. Owners: C Barrie, registered Dundee, then Anglo-American Oil Co., registered London, 1912 Windram and Co., and after other changes became a unit in Gustaf Erikson's fleet in 1919 and was frequently in the Australian grain races. Seized by South African Government during WW2, she was employed in various trades until sold after the war to Portugese owners who did not use the vessel and she was finally broken up near Lourenco Marques in 1957]
Unknown American vessel
Figurehead, Unknown American vessel. Figurehead is held in the Collection of the 'Cutty Sark' Museum, Greenwich, London: Long John Silver Collection of Ship's Figureheads.