Arthur D. Edwardes : SUMMARY RECORD [PRG 1373] • Photograph


'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]


'Lancaster' wooden frigate
Figurehead, 'Lancaster' wooden frigate.


'Celtic Glen' steel ship
Figurehead, 'Celtic Glen' steel ship. [steel ship, 1941 tons. ON99427, 267.9 x 39.7 x 23.4. Built 1892 (7) W. Hamilton and Co. Port Glasgow as Iquique for Iquique Sailing Ship Co. (Brodersen Vaughan and Co. registered Liverpool sold c.1910 and renamed Celtic Glen by Celtic Glen Co. (R. Hughes-Jones and Co.) registered Liverpool. Sold and renamed Riverford, then in 1918 sold Marine Nav. Co. of Canada Ltd and renamed Garthforce. Collided with an iceberg sout of Cape of Good Hope in 1921 and was towed into Durban and sold for conversion into a hulk.]


'Juteopolis' steel 4 masted barque
Figurehead, 'Juteopolis' steel 4 masted barque.


'Walter H Wilson' steel 4 masted barque
Figurehead, 'Walter H Wilson' steel 4 masted barque. Built by Harland and Wolff in 1882. In 1900 was renamed 'California' and in 1911 was lost off St Mary's Island [iron 4 mast barque 2518 tons ON86533. 308.1 x 42.7 x 24.9 Built 1882 (7) Harland and Wolff, Belfast as Walter H Wilson and rigged as a 4 mast ship, owners S. Lawther and Son, reg. Belfast. Sold 1900 and renamed California by J. Edgar and Co. reg. Liverpool. Wrecked January 1913 when under tow from the Tyne to Rotterdam. Eight lives lost]


'California' steel 4 masted barque ex 'Walter H Wilson'
Figurehead, 'California' ex 'Walter H Wilson' steel 4 masted barque. Postcard provided by Richard Hunter Figurehead Historian, UK from Alands Sjofartsmuseum. See also PRG 1373/79/104.


'Dewarutji' steel barquentine
Figurehead, 'Dewarutji' steel barquentine.


'Dewarutji' steel barquentine
Figurehead, 'Dewarutji' steel barquentine.


'Vanadis' wooden warship
Figurehead, 'Vanadis' wooden warship.


'Garthpool' steel 4 masted barque
Figurehead, 'Garthpool' steel 4 masted barque [see also 'Juteopolis']


'Seminole' wooden ship
Figurehead, 'Seminole' wooden ship. See also PRG 1373/79/71.


'Leucothea' wooden ship
Figurehead, 'Leucothea' wooden ship.


'Caledonia' iron schooner
Figurehead, 'Caledonia' iron schooner. [Norwegian vessel of this name from 1913 - c.1924. See Olivebank]


'Marie' wooden barque
Figurehead, 'Marie' wooden barque.


'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']


Un named vessel
Figurehead, un named vessel in dry dock.


'Abraham Rydberg' 4 masted barque
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)]


'Collingwood' iron ship
Figurehead, 'Collingwood' iron ship. [iron ship, 1064 tons. ON65731m, 211.1 x 34.8 x 21.0. Built 1872 (6) W. Hood and Co. Aberdeen. Owners Devitt and Moore, registered London. Sold to Norwegian owner with name unchanged. Sunk by German submarine 12 March 1917.]


'Apostle'
Figurehead, 'Apostle'. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, Newport, News, USA.


'Edith' British vessel
Figurehead, 'Edith'. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, Newport, News, USA.


Unknown American vessel
Figurehead, Unknown vessel (American) small female figurehead. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, Newport, News, USA.


Unknown British vessel
Figurehead, Unknown vessel (British) Moorish pirate figurehead from British East Indiaman. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.


Unknown vessel
Figurehead, Unknown vessel. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.


'Warrior' American vessel
Figurehead, 'Warrior' American vessel. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.


'Mermaid' British vessel
Figurehead, 'Mermaid' British vessel. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.


Unknown American vessel
Figurehead, Unknown American vessel. Figurehead of naval officer. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.


'Irish queen' British vessel
Figurehead, 'Irish Queen' British vessel. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.


Unknown American vessel
Figurehead, Unknown American vessel. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.


Unknown vessel
Figurehead, Unknown vessel. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.


'Mermaid' American yacht
Figurehead, 'Mermaid' American yacht. Held in the collection of the Mariner's Museum, USA.