Originally Posted by
az_gila
...Some guy found her poor old body (still working as a barge I think) in 1966 and brought her to NYC, she was helped into the harbour by a sister ship, the Allerton. She sits at Southstreet Seaport and although they have re-masted her she needs a lot of work on her 'tween' area and general HELP!!!...
Is the sister ship Allerton (a good Liverpool name) still around?
I will have a look in the book right now.
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No, there is a painting of her being nudged into her birth at Southstreet Seaport by Bill Muller called Night Docking
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Here she is, you have to scroll some way down
http://williamgmuller.com/prints/prints.html
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Does not name her but that is the pic in my book and says she is the Allerton
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This is interesting
http://books.google.com/books?id=KZg...page&q&f=false
Next time I am at the seaport I will take more pics and ask in the museum about the Allerton
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