File:The ship ‘Windhover’ RMG BHC3723.jpg
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Summary
anonymous: The ship ‘Windhover’
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British School, 19th century |
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| Title |
The ship ‘Windhover’  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||
| Description |
English: The ship ‘Windhover’ The ship was built by Charles Connell Shipyard at Glasgow, on the Clyde in 1868. Owned by J. Findlay & Co, Glasgow she was a tea clipper travelling regularly to China, sailing to Shanghai, Foo-Chow, Yokohama and Hong Kong. She was bought by Kerr & Co in 1881 and altered to a barque rig. In 1885 the ‘Windhover’ was wrecked when she hit a sunken reef on the Torres Strait NSW laden with coal for Batavia, although all on board survived. |
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| Date | 19th century | |||||||||||
| Dimensions | Painting: 430 mm x 595 mm x 11 mm | |||||||||||
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| Accession number |
BHC3723 |
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| Notes | Depiction association: name on vessel. | |||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/15196 | |||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | id number: BHC3723 | |||||||||||
| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||
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| current | 23:15, 13 September 2017 | | 1,280 × 904 (1.49 MB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings, http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/15196 #68 |
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