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The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, has a one-page drawing labeled "A DRAWING OF HIS MAJESTY'S ARM'D SCHOONER BERBICE, THE 5TH AUG 1789" that comprises a sheer plan, body lines, deck plan, lines, and a view of her stern. These drawings of HMS Berbice represent the earliest draught of what became known as the Baltimore clipper. [3]
Over two decades later in its storied career, on 5 September 2005, the Pride of Baltimore II suffered a complete dismasting while sailing in a squall in the Bay of Biscay off the western coast of France. The ship returned to port under motor power for repairs and spent over four months rebuilding the rig in St. Nazaire, France. [11]
Clipper ship sailing card for the Free Trade, printed by Nesbitt & Co., New York, early 1860s. Departures of clipper ships, mostly from New York and Boston to San Francisco, were advertised by clipper-ship sailing cards. These cards, slightly larger than today's postcards, were produced by letterpress and wood engraving on coated card stock.
Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre particularly strong from the 17th to 19th centuries. [ 1 ]
Both ships used small coal boilers, but Luther Little's also provided heat and hot water to the ship’s forward and main cabins in addition to mechanical work. [5] When Luther Little was launched she is said to have been the first boat of its kind launched from Fall River in more than 40 years (c. 1878).
Retired in 1926, she was restored as a seaworthy museum ship in 1962–3 and home-ported at the Maritime Museum of San Diego in San Diego, California. She is the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still afloat. [4] The ship is both a California Historical Landmark and United States National ...
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The Sailing Ships of New England, 1607-1907, by John Robinson and George Francis Dow, Marine Research Society, Salem, Massachusetts: 1922. The 1606/1607 Voyage To Virginia. Surviving Sketch of Virginia; Building a Replica of Virginia Archived 2011-03-24 at the Wayback Machine; The Pinnace Virginia Building project video; Sailing Ship Rigs