wrt 150: trains and ships

WRT 150: Trains and Ships

Canterbury Star

The Portsmouth Abbey School sailing team on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. The photograph

is by Billy Black.

USS Leyte

This is an Essex class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.

• A regatta

In 1844, the city merchants of Boston paid to have the canal cut to free the icebound Britannia. This lithograph shows the ship

leaving.

Britannia

• The Seawolf is a submarine.

British Cruiser

• HMS Belfast

In 1855, the Persia, the largest steamer in the world was

launched at the Wood and Napier shipyard in Glasgow.

Persia

The Ships of the Great Lakes

The Moonlight, built in Milwaukee in 1874, had a topsail schooner sail plan. Carrying iron

ore, she foundered in a gale on Lake Superior.

Moonlight

Amerigo Vespucci

• Tall ship in NYC harbor. Public domain (NOAA collection).

• The picture was taken by Rear Admiral Harley D. Nygren, NOAA Corps (ret.) in July 1976, apparently at the ship parade in the NYC harbor at the United States Bicentennial festivities.

The Lizzie Metzner was a Manitowoc lumber schooner

built in 1888. She was sunk in the Bay of Quinte around 1917.

Lizzie Metzner

The Stuart H. Dunn of Kingston, Ontario, served in the square timber trade between Toledo,

Ohio and Garden City, Ontario. She carried a square topsail and was fitted with a steam donkey

boiler. She sank in Whitby Harbor in 1925.

Viking Ship

Astoundingly, a veritable flotilla of sunken Viking vessels turned up on the grounds of the very museum being built to house other Viking boats. The modern phase of Viking ship investigation began with the recovery of five vessels at Skuldelev in Roskilde fjord, Denmark, between 1957 and 1962. The excavation involved building a coffer dam around the ships, which Norsemen deliberately sunk in a desperate bid to barricade the fjord against invaders.

The major revelation at Skuldelev was the variety of the vessels, which ranged from a stocky cargo ship with a capacity of 24 tons to two sleek longships. The larger of the longships, measuring 95 feet in length, had made at least one successful crossing of the North Sea, for tree-ring analysis of its oak timbers revealed that they had been cut down around A.D. 1060-70 near Dublin, suggesting the presence of a major shipyard at this key Viking stronghold in Ireland. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/ships.html

Stuart H. Dunn

The next three ship portraits appeared in an article in the Portsmouth Abbey School Bulletin written by Gregg K.

Dietrich, president of North Star Galleries in NYC. They were reprinted from the Summer 2002 issue of The

Catalogue of Antiques & Fine Art.

An air view of the U. S. Coast Guard barque Eagle. The crew consists of Coast Guard cadets

and officers from the Coast Guard Academy in New London,

CT.

These two prints are done in intaglio and dry-point technique by the Italian-born printmaker,

Yngve Edward Soderberg (1896-1871). They show the America’s

Cup race between Ranger and Endeavor II in 1937. The artist

was aboard Endeavor II.

This oil on panel by the British artist Robert Salmon (1775-1845) is called “Shipping off the North

Shields Lighthouse,” and was painted ca. 1842.

U. S. S. ConstitutionCharlestown, Massachusetts

1907

Photograph by N. L. Stebbins