Doesn't look likely Joe...Originally Posted by gregs dad
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-1.htm
[BTW. I was reminded by tonight's edition (repeat) of QI about the luckiest ship in the US navy: USS Phoenix. The one ship that survived the attack on Pearl Harbour and later sold and renamed...the General Belgrano...we know what happened to her then.]
Wavertree at South Street New York.
Biggest iron boat still surviving that.
This one might be tough...
Where is this? And what is it?
A ship in another city. What's the name of the ship. Where is it? What is its connection to Liverpool?
????? ain't got a clue,but Russian?,"Onedin line,possibly? Give us another, Chris!
Zebu? Training ship?
Correct! Well done.
Photograph copyright Alex Gambaro (Paid My Dues) on Flickr. Thanks, Alex. This photograph should not be used without Mr Gambaro's consent. Thanks.
Following information from http://www.southstreetseaportmuseum....1.aspx?BD=8993
Wavertree
Rig: Full Rigged Ship
Material: Iron
Length: 279 ft.
Breadth: 40.2 ft.
Gross Tonnage: 2170
Net Tonnage: 2118
Crew: 3 officers, 21 men
Sail Area: 31,495 sq. ft.
Depth: 24.4 ft.
Wavertree was built at Southampton, England in 1885 for R.W. Leyland & Company of Liverpool, one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron. Today, she is the largest afloat. Wavertree was first employed to carry jute, used in making rope and burlap bags, between eastern India (now Bangladesh) and Scotland. When less then two years old she entered the tramp trades, taking cargoes anywhere in the world she could find them. After sailing for a quarter century, she limped into the Falkland Islands in December 1910, having been dismasted off Cape Horn. Rather then re-rigging her, her owners sold her for use as a floating warehouse at Punta Arenas, Chile. She was converted into a sand barge at Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1947, and acquired by the South Street Seaport Museum in 1968.
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Wouldn't have known that Chris, well done Samsette. I was thinking it was the vessel that your parents brought you over to the States on Chris
It's an insurance sign. Here's an example in Aberdeen. I don't know where it would be located in Liverpool though.This one might be tough...
Where is this? And what is it?
Chris
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It looks like the Sun motif, possibly Royal Sun Alliance but the red stonework at the top is making me think the Pru building on Dale st?
Nah, Ged. That was a coracle that my Mum and Dad paddled from the Mersey across to New York. . . .Wouldn't have known that Chris, well done Samsette. I was thinking it was the vessel that your parents brought you over to the States on Chris
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Correct on what it is guys.
It's actually a "Fire Insurance Plaque" from the Sun Fire Office - founded in 1710. The Sun Fire Office combined with Alliance Fire Office in 1959 to form Sun Alliance. They joined with Royal Insurance in 1996 to form Royal Sun Alliance.
For most of the 18th century, each insurance company maintained its own fire brigade, which extinguished fires in those buildings insured by the company and, in return for a fee to be paid later, in buildings insured by other companies. The firemen knew which houses were insured though the Fire Insurance Plaque.
Nice work guys... but where is it?
Well the Royal Sun Alliance building is the sandcastle building on Old Hall St but that doesn't look like it's on there so i'm supposing the original Sun Alliance building but I don't know where it was though Castle St/Dale St/Water St was always the business/Commerce area.
Have a look at this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/57498517@N00/169165413
I have photos of the Wavertree up on here!!! I nip down to the Seaport quite often and always visit her. I even bought the book. Cheek!!
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I just brought MY photos of the Wavertree from June up on the picture of the day for June, the very nerve of you Chris,Correct! Well done.
Photograph copyright Alex Gambaro (Paid My Dues) on Flickr. Thanks, Alex. This photograph should not be used without Mr Gambaro's consent. Thanks.
Following information from http://www.southstreetseaportmuseum....1.aspx?BD=8993
Wavertree
Rig: Full Rigged Ship
Material: Iron
Length: 279 ft.
Breadth: 40.2 ft.
Gross Tonnage: 2170
Net Tonnage: 2118
Crew: 3 officers, 21 men
Sail Area: 31,495 sq. ft.
Depth: 24.4 ft.
Wavertree was built at Southampton, England in 1885 for R.W. Leyland & Company of Liverpool, one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron. Today, she is the largest afloat. Wavertree was first employed to carry jute, used in making rope and burlap bags, between eastern India (now Bangladesh) and Scotland. When less then two years old she entered the tramp trades, taking cargoes anywhere in the world she could find them. After sailing for a quarter century, she limped into the Falkland Islands in December 1910, having been dismasted off Cape Horn. Rather then re-rigging her, her owners sold her for use as a floating warehouse at Punta Arenas, Chile. She was converted into a sand barge at Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1947, and acquired by the South Street Seaport Museum in 1968.!!!
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