2 VG's there Cap'n.
BrianD
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2 VG's there Cap'n.
BrianD
This painting is by the artist Charles Dixon ,who was Britains greatest marine artist. It was commisioned by the Empire Marketting Board and was called The River Mersey,the Western Gate of the Empire. It is a pity it does not hang in the Walker Art Gallery or the Maritime Museum,instead it lays somewhere in the National Archives at Kew.
BrianD
Here is another study by Charles Dixon. This one is entitled The Pool Of London, Viewed from Cherry Garden Pier. You can see why London was called the Smoke,
BrianD
Nice pictures Captain. You're a man of many talents.
Nice one Brian, pity the Liverpool picture aint in the Maritime Museum.
Hi Brian,
You never cease to amase and overwhelm me with wonder with your ability.
Great pictures.:)
Reg.
Thank you for those kind comments gentlemen.
Two Statues of famous explorers and navigators.
First one is Captain Robert Falcon Scott, famous for not returning from the South Pole, the Statue is in the gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The second one is Mathew Flinders, RN. Navigator He surveyed the Australian coast. The Statue is in the garden of the Cathedral, opposite the Young and Jacksons pub and across from Flinders Street Station on Flinders Street in Melbourne. Named after him.
I took the Photos in 2007
Here is another Charles Dixion painting to set the pulse racing. This a study of those two famous tea clippers ,the Cutty Sark and her great rival ,the Thermopylae. They have every sail set in their endeavour to be the first home with that seasons pick of the tea crop. I bought this picture for my Mum forty odd years ago,it was on a china plate which she treasured. Wish I had it now,
BrianD
Was it that close Brian? Was it like the wine run today.Quote:
Originally Posted by brian daley
1870-1878: The China Tea Years
Hi Pablo, a lot of myths surround the rivalry between the two great China tea clippers , below is an account the tea "races" ,you will see how the reality differs from the sailors yarns ..................................................
On 16th February 1870, Cutty Sark left London bound for Shanghai, via the Cape of Good Hope, on her first voyage. Commanded by Captain George Moodie, she carried "large amounts of wine, spirits and beer? (Captain?s abstract log). The arrival of the ship at Shanghai, with ?manufactured goods?, is listed in The North China Herald of 2nd June 1870. Departing with around 1,450 tons of tea on 25th June, she arrived back in London on 13th October 1870.
This is the first of 8 voyages the ship successfully made to China in pursuit of tea. However, Cutty Sark never became the fastest ship on the tea trade. Dogged by bad winds and misfortune, she never lived up to the high expectations of her owner during these years. The closest the ship came to winning the tea race was in 1872, when she had the opportunity to race the Thermopylae head-to-head for the first time.
After arriving at Shanghai in late May 1872, she met the Thermopylae when loading her tea cargo. With both sailing from Woosung on 17th June 1872, the two ships closely matched each other through the China Sea and into the Indian Ocean. By 7th August, and with a good tail wind, Cutty Sark found herself a good 400 miles ahead of the Thermopylae. On 15th August, disaster struck when Cutty Sark?s rudder gives way. After reconstructing the rudder twice in heavy seas, the ship arrived back at London on 19th October, around 7 days after her rival. The courage and determination of Captain Moodie and his crew won Cutty Sark great credit, but Moodie retired from his command of the ship due to stress and the ship was never to get this close to winning the tea race again.
I hope this gives you the full picture,
BrianD
Here is another Charles Dixon poster. This one was commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Co. and show one of the famous Duchess Liners.
A truly beautiful picture. Anyone got any ideas of who she was and where she is shown? Answers please,
BrianD
She is one of the Duchess ships of four sisters, Duchess of Athol, Bedford, York and Richmond. They were built in the late twenties.
Under my magnifying glass she could be the Duchess of Richmond built 1929 and renamed Empress of Canada in 1947. burned, capsized January 31 1953, then scrapped next year.
The `Bedford` became Empress of France and `Richmond` became the Empress of Canada the other two lost in the war.
Your painting shows the French flag at the mast head showing she could be in a French port on a cruise away from the usual Canadian run to Quebec and Montreal.
The Athol; was built in 1928 and sunk in 1942 in South Atlantic
The York was built in 1928 and sunk off Moroco in 1943
Canadian Pacific only had four Duchesses
Company list below.
1922 RMS Empress of Scotland. [26] ? 1905 1906 SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria (1906-1919, 1919-1921); USS Kaiserin August Victoria (1919) Atlantic, 1906-1914; inactive, 1914-1919; Atlantic, 1920-1930 1930
1922 RMS Empress of Canada. [27] 1920 1922 . Atlantic, 1922-1939; wartime service, 1939-1943 1943
1928 RMS Duchess of Athol. [28] ? 1927 1928 . Atlantic, 1928-1939; war service, 1939-1942 1942
1928 SS Duchess of Bedford. [29] 1928 1928 RMS Empress of France (1947-1960) Atlantic 1960
1929 SS Duchess of Richmond. [30] 1928 1928 RMS Empress of Canada (1947-1953) Atlantic, 1929-1939; war service, 1939-1947; Atlantic, 1947-1953 1953
1929 SS Duchess of York. [31] 1928. 1929. Keel laid down as Duchess of Cornwall Atlantic, 1929-1939; war service, 1939-1943 1943
1930 RMS Empress of Japan. [32] 1929 1930 RMS Empress of Scotland (1942-1958); SS Hanseatic (1958-1966) Pacific, 1930-1942; war service, 1942-1947; Atlantic, 1948-1958 1966
Two views of the Duchess of Richmond below.
There was no Duchess of The Atlantic.
And now for something completely different. A poster by Charles Pears which was commissioned by the Empire Marketing Board and is entitled "There's all the Health in the Fish in the Sea. This is in the National Archives at Kew,
BrianD
good painting there Brian, That is one of the reasons I didnt go fishing. Always cold and wet, not much bronzy.
What do you think about the Richmond, Was I close.
Cheers
Brian.
Hi Brian, I think you were spot on mate, I could just about make out the name after you suggested it. By the way Charles Dixon entitled the picture Duchess of the Atlantic as a term of praise not that he named an actual ship,
Briand
Another great Charles Dixon study,this one is of the White Star Liner Britannic.
The original painting hangs in the Ulster Folk and transport Museum.
She is very like the Titanic,
BrianD
Hi Brian.
here she is as the Hospital ship obviously just before she was sunk either by mine of torpedo.
This is a ship my grandfather sailed on - we found this when researching our family history. Just wondering if anyone would know where its possible to find crew lists for these types of ships? It is the Palmella (Ellerman Lines)
Thanks in anticipation
Great picture Birdy,I was on the Palmelian,another Ellerman boat ,in the 60's.Now ,as to crew lists,you could try the National Archives at Kew,they will need dates,the vessels name and money. They charge for their services but are very helpful.You could also try Billy Mcghee on the Mercantile Marine site ,I have found him very helpful in the past. Best of luck in your endeavours,
Briand
Hi Brian, thanks for that, much appreciated. We did try Kew originally but it appears that some records for crew lists around the period (early 1900's) were destroyed and so it was a bit difficult. Coupled with that we had great difficulty understanding the referencing system applied to ships records so that didnt help!
Thanks for the info I will look at both those sources.
Two Esso Tankers.
Esso Caledonia, 1117 feet in length, 175 feet beam, 68 feet draft increasing to 75 feet with squat. When I was third mate on her we were running from the Gulf ports to Singapore, Kawasaki, Japan, around the Cape to the Mississipi and European ports with 256,000 tons of crude oil.
The other was the Esso Aberdeen, I was Second Mate on this one, Loading 126,000 tons of crude oil from the Brent Spa, 125 miles north of the Shetlands in the North Atlantic. a wild and windy place to be, The highest wind speed recorded there was over 200 knots.
The ship is moored over the bow and loading is over the bow. The engines are kept at 25 revs astern to keep tension on the mooring ropes to prevent the ship riding on to the Spa and the ship rotates 360 degres with the wind and tides. When the wind gets up we had to disconnect and let go then steam around well clear until the wind was at an acceptable speed then start again. it sometimes took up to two weeks to load, on a good day we could load in 24 hours.
The Brent Spa was a `hollow tube` over 450 feet in height and nearly 100 feet in diameter, floating like an up turned milk bottle, moored to sea bed with cables, displacing 66,000 tons.with a rotating platform with contol room, accomodation and heli pad on top. It was filled through an open bottom from pipe lines from the prduction rigs in the Brent Field. Pipelines were eventually laid from the Brent to Sullon Voe in the Shetlands making it redundant.It was discontinued in 1991 and finally scrapped in 1999 after much International campaigning. It was going to be sunk in the Atlantic. but Greenpeace climbed aboard due to the threat of pollution and so eventually it was towed to a Norwegian fjord and scrapped there.
Nice one Captain. I think I was on that doing an exercise. Dreadful place.
The S.S. JEREMIAH O'BRIEN is one of two remaining fully functional Liberty Ships of the 2,710 built and launched during WWII. The S.S. JEREMIAH O'BRIEN has the distinction of being the last unaltered Liberty Ship and remains historically accurate. Moored at Pier 45, Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco.
She was at Normandy in 1944 at the invasion. In 1994 she sailed from Frisco to London and then did a tour of the Channel ports. I went to London in June 1994 and sat on deck for four days yarning with the old Sailors who brought her over. A good experience after many years to be able to go aboard an old Sam Boat. I had sailed on one of Blue Funnel`s Sam Boats, the Euryades.
I met an old mate on deck and he asked the Admiral, who was Master, now dead, if he could sail back to Frisco with them and he said Yes. I saw him a couple of months later and he told me all about it, A wonderful experience for him. I should have asked but didnt think about it.
I have been on board her a couple of times more when I have been in San Francisco and a couple of the old timers are still working on her It was good to spend Smoko yarning on Number four hatch. It is run by volunteers and maintained by them, A few Vindi Boys get over there for a few weeks to chip and paint etc and live on board. No pay but you get fed and watered.
The photos show the cabin, where four of us would sleep in. We never thought any different about it, but when you see a prison cell today with single occupancy, en suite, computers, mobile phones, TVs etc, makes you wonder what we did wrong.
She still sails every other weekend around the Bay area, if you ever get over there it would be a great experience to do that.
Her steam reciprocatinging engines in use were filmed in the last movie `TITANIC`
Nice one Captain.
HI captain, another view of S.S. JEREMIAH O'BRIEN. A fine Ship that I also visited in 2006. She is kept in excellent condition as a tribute to all those who sailed the seas during that time.
HM
Sorry, don't seem to be able to attach the photo.
HM
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Hi.
A vido clip of the engine room...:rolleyes:
Reg.
http://www.vidoemo.com/yvideo.php?i=...-october-2008=
Good one Reg,
I have been down there three times and always fascinating, reminds me of my couple of trips as a fireman. As I said before, these were used in the film TITANIC.
This is a painting of the P&O Hospital Ship Egypt at Alexandria in 1918. This water colour was by Kenneth D. Shoesmith and is dated 1918,
BrianD
Nice one Brian.
These are not seafaring photos but a lot of seafarers were interested in their music.
I took these photos in a bar, called Hard Rock Cafe, in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.
all autographed by the late great Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens.
Hi there
Can anyone direct me to a photo or pic of this ship?
Built in 1860 in Liverpool, she was a 287 ton barque used on the Liverpool Argentina run. She belonged to the Thomas B. Royden & Co fleet.
best regards
These three pics were taken as slides in 1968,that is why the quality is so poor. But they show a ship I was on,the Demeterton, stuggling around the Cape of Good Hope in a bit of a storm. That last wave shook us like a terrier shakes a rat and the impact forced the Windlass back by two inches. It was one hell of a thud,
BrianD
La Zingara T. Royden 1860
A barque of 287 tons built by Royden in Liverpool and registered in Liverpool. Sailed to South America
La Z?ngara
Construction: 1860, Royden in Liverpool
1861 - Registered in the Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping
Owners: T. Royden
Rigging: Barque; sheathed in yellow metal in 1860; fastened with copper bolts
Tonnage: 287 tons
Master: George Sanders
Port of registry: Liverpool
Port of survey: Liverpool
Voyage: sailed for South America
CANNOT FIND A PICTURE
Thanks captain kong.
I'd love a picture, though.
best regards
Captain Kong.Quote:
Originally Posted by captain kong
We went to Hawaii mid 1993 and went to see the HRC @ Maui It realy is a great place to visit. Here is a copy of one of their advertisement's.
(Ever play that game where you sit around and try to imagine what albums you'd want on a desert island? Well, wonder no more! We've forged ahead and made the decision easy for you at the Hard Rock Cafe Maui, where rocking out is elevated to an art form. We've got great tunes a-plenty, so pack light, catch a wave and surf on over! The historical backdrop of Old Lahaina town (once the capital of Hawaii) provides an alluring setting, with a lush tropical locale beyond compare and local sights that'll blow your mind, including Haleakala, "the House of the Sun," the world's largest dormant volcano.
From our cafe's quiet garden-style oasis, drink in majestic Pacific vistas, get a close-up glimpse of whales on their migration paths, or just sit back, relax, and enjoy the airy look and feel of our glorious open beam, A-frame ceiling. Marvel at our various island-inspired memorabilia, including an entire wall dedicated to surfer greats Derek Ho, Brock Little, and Kelly Slater. So when the surf's down, or even when it's up, get on over to our most exotic location around- the Hard Rock Cafe Maui!)
Reg.
Hi Reg,
thanks for that, it realy is just that, a beautiful island where you can sit with a cool beer and watch the whales blowing spray as they swim past on their way north Hard Rock Cafe is a very interesting bar to be in.
Lahaina is a place I could enjoy living in. Then there is the worlds biggest Banyon tree at the market,
This Banyan Tree was first planted in April, 1873, and marked the 50th Anniversary of Christian missionary work in Lahaina. The tree was imported from India was only 8 feet tall. It now stands over 60 feet high, has 12 major trunks in addition to a huge core. It stretches over a 200-foot area and shades 2/3 of an acre.
Hi Brian.
This clip will bring back some fond memory's for you.There are about 6 clips to see:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOBNI...eature=related
Reg.
Thanks for the video clips Reg.
We went to the market under the Tree on a hot day, it was nice and cool under there.
Cheers
Brian.