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'Imperator Alexander' ship

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/78/32

"Running the easting down'; ship 'Imperator Alexander' with decks awash.

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

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/78/29

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

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/79/15

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

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/79/43

Figurehead, 'Mozambique' wooden barque.

'Padua'

1928, Photograph, PRG 1373/78/123

'Padua', in the South Atlantic, 1928.

'Marie' wooden barque

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/79/112

Figurehead, 'Marie' wooden barque.

'Lawhill' 4 masted barque

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/78/38

'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

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/79/132

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.

'Pamir' 4 masted barque

c. 1905, Photograph, PRG 1373/78/90

Furling the lofty main royal; 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]

'El Minot'

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/79/45

Figurehead, 'El Minot'.

'Jolly Tar' wooden schooner

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/79/66

Figurehead, 'Jolly Tar' wooden schooner.

'Artic Stream'

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/78/110

A pathetic group. Albatrosses caught in the "roaring forties"; British ship 'Artic Stream'.

'Frideborg' barquentine

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/78/55

Foremast; barquentine 'Frideborg'.

'Abraham Rydberg' 4 masted barque

1937, Photograph, PRG 1373/79/115

Figurehead, 'Abraham Rydberg' 4 masted barque. Photographed at Wallaroo, 1937 by CP Mountford [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)]

'Lady Edmonton' wooden ship

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/79/65

Figurehead, 'Lady Edmonton' wooden ship.

'Glen Morag' iron ship

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/79/19

Figurehead, 'Glen Morag' iron ship.

'Killoran' barque

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/78/99

A sailor and his model. Chief mate of barque 'Killoran' and model of 'Ponape' [Killoran = steel barque, 1757tons, ON111238. 261.5 x 39.1 x 22.7. Built 1900 (8) Ailsa SB Co. Troon. Owners: Killoran Barque Co. (J Hardie and Co) Sold c.1924/5 to G Erikson. Sunk by German raider during WW2 c.1940]

'Imperator Alexander' ship

1900, Photograph, PRG 1373/78/33

Cape Horn weather; ship 'Imperator Alexander' under storm canvas.

'Lawhill' 4 masted barque

1948, Photograph, PRG 1373/78/43

Starboard watch at work; 4 masted barque 'Lawhill', 1948 [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]

'Lawhill' 4 masted barque

1948, Photograph, PRG 1373/78/40

Making sail on poop deck of 4 masted barque 'Lawhill', 1948 [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]