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'General de Sonis' steel barque [PRG 1373/49/74] • Photograph

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Summary

'General de Sonis' steel barque 2307 tons [steel barque rigged sailing ship, 2190 gross, 1943 net tons. 277.5 x 40.4 x 22.7. Built 1901 Chant. Nantais de Cons. Maritime. Nantes. Owners Soc. Nouvelle d'Arement registered Nantes. Stranded Port Victoria, South Australia March 1913 and only refloated after several months. Broken up in 1932. Originally 2307 gross, 1740 net tons. Owners Cie de Nav. Francaise, registered Nantes]

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Physical description

Photograph (B&W print); 10 cm x 14.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

1900s

Collection

Part of A.D. Edwardes Collection

Subject

General de Sonis (Ship)

Catalogue record

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General notes

From a volume titled 'French Owned Shipping Lines and Miscellaneous French Sailing Vessels'.

This section comprises Societe Nouvelle D'Armement, Nantes.

This image is from the A.D. Edwardes Collection of about 8,000 photographs, mostly of sailing ships from around the world, taken between about 1865 and 1920. Mounted in 91 albums, the photographs are arranged by country of ownership, with some special volumes such as 'Shipping at Port Adelaide' and 'South Australian outports'. Additional information, giving the history of the ships where known, has been provided by maritime historian, Ron Parsons.

Digitisation information

Date

03/10/2019

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

4,857 x 3,486 pixels (16.9 MP)

Size

50.82 MB

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