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'Frideborg' barquentine
View of main mast from aft' barquentine 'Frideborg'.
'Garthpool' steel 4 masted barque
Figurehead, 'Garthpool' steel 4 masted barque [see also 'Juteopolis']
'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]
'Mermaid' American yacht
Figurehead, 'Mermaid' American yacht. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.
'Adolf' iron ship
Figurehead, 'Adolf' iron ship.
'Cutty Sark' composite ship
Figurehead, 'Cutty Sark' composite ship [composite ship, 963 gross tons. ON63557. 212.5 x 36.0 x 21.6. Built 1869 (11) Scott and Linton, Dumbarton. Owners John Willis and Son, registered London. (The shipbuilders went bankrupt in the course of constructing the ship and it was completed by Denny Bros) Sold 1895 to Portuguese and renamed Ferreira. Bought in 1922 by Captain Dowman of Falmouth, named and restored and re-rigged to her original sail plan. Presented to the Thames Nautical Training College in 1938. Subsequently installed in a dry dock at Greenwich on permanent display. This vessel has probably had more written about her than any other sailing ship, including 'The Log of the Cutty Sark' by Lubbock, see for full details up to 1938. The name is taken from a poem by Burns - Tam O'Shanter and the best translation appears to be 'short chemise'. Built for the China trades and considered to be among the world's fastest sailing ships. she was transferred to the Australian trades in 1885-6, trading mainly to Sydney, until she made a few voyages to Brisbane in the 1890's prior to being withdrawn and sold foreign. See 'The Log of the cutty Sark', 'Colonial Clippers', 'China Clippers']
'Maipo' barque
Poop deck; barque 'Maipo'.
'Medway' 4 masted barque, 'Captain Cook' pilot boat
Pilot waiting to be taken off 4 masted barque 'Medway'. Pilot boat 'Captain Cook' in background [steel 4 mast barque, 2511 tons, ON129109. 300.0 x 43.2 x 24.8. Built 1902 (7) A McMillan and Son Ltd. Dumbarton. Owners: Devitt and Moore's Ocean Training Ships Ltd, registered London. Formerly named 'Ama Begonakoa' of Monte Video and acquired by Moore in 1910. As a wartime measure was converted to an oil carrier at Hong Kong but the war was over before conversion was completed and she became a harbour oiler at Singapore under the name of 'Myr Shell' until sold for scrap in 1933]
'Lawhill' 4 masted barque
Starboard watch mans the capstan; 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]
'Omega' 4 masted barque
View from boat-skids looking at midship section; 4 masted barque 'Omega'.
'Ellen' barque
Main deck of barque 'Ellen' after putting in to Lisbon following an explosion in her coal cargo.
'Omega' 4 masted barque
Looking aft from bowsprit; 4 masted barque 'Omega'.
'Arabella' iron barque
Figurehead, 'Arabella' iron barque.
'England's Glory' iron ship
Figurehead, 'England's Glory' iron ship [iron 3 mast barque (originally ship rig) 787 tons. ON60919. 183.3 x 31.2 x 19.7. Built 1869 (3) W Pile and Co. Sunderland. Owners Peter Smith (of Plymouth) registered London; later EHR Moon. Wrecked Nov 7, 1881 near the entrance to Bluff Harbour, New Zealand]
'Star of Greece' iron ship
Figurehead, 'Star of Greece' iron ship [iron ship, 1280 tons, ON60313, 227.0 x 35.0 x 22.2. Built 1868 (9) Harland and Wolff, Belfast. Owners JP Cory and Co., registered Belfast. Wrecked at Willunga, South Australia July 13, 1888]
'Golden Gate' steel 4 masted barque
Figurehead, 'Golden Gate' steel 4 masted barque 'Golden Gate' steel 4 masted barque 2341 tons [see also 'Lord Shaftesbury']
Unknown vessel
Figurehead, Unknown vessel. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.
'Barossa' barque
Main topsail haul; barque 'Barossa' 1899.
'Calbuco'
Working on the bowsprit of the 'Calbuco'
'Bermuda' 4 masted barque
Longest unbroken sweep of deck in any sailing ship - British hurricane-decked 4 masted barque 'Bermuda'; looking forward.
'Beatrice' 4 masted barque
Main deck looking aft; 4 masted barque 'Beatrice'.
'Dimsdale'
A fair visitor at the wheel of the ship 'Dimsdale'.
'Donald Mac Kay' wooden ship
Figurehead, 'Donald Mac Kay' wooden ship.
'British Admiral' iron ship
Figurehead, 'British Admiral' iron ship.
Unknown American vessel
Figurehead, Unknown American vessel. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.
Un named vessel
Figurehead, un named vessel in dry dock.
'City of Lahore' iron ship
Figurehead, 'City of Lahore' iron ship. [iron ship, 989 tons, ON48911, 202.0 x 31.8 x 21.4. Built 1864 (3) A. Stephen and Sons, Glasgow. Owners George Smith and Sons, registered Glasgow and reduced to barque rig. Wrecked at Newcastle, NSW Dec. 22. 1895]
'Priwall' 4 masted barque
Looking forward from poop deck; 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]
Unknown vessel
Figurehead, Unknown vessel. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.
'Timaru' iron ship
Figurehead, 'Timaru' iron ship [iron 3 mast ship, 1363 gross, 1306 net tons. ON71689, 239.3 x 36.1 x 21.1. Built 1874 (12) Scott and Co. Greenock. Owners: Albion Shipping Co., registered Glasgow, later Shaw Savill and Albion Co. Ltd., c.1899 converted into a freezer-storage hulk in South Africa. (Some reports say she was wrecked under Norwegian ownership Feb. 22, 1907)]