MAKE A MEME View Large Image George W R Bourne - Dartford.jpg The painting depicts the three masted fully-rigged sailing ship DARTFORD in broad-side view flying the red ensign of the British Merchant Marine The ship's name can be seen along the hull 1910 watercolor ...
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Keywords: George W R Bourne - Dartford.jpg The painting depicts the three masted fully-rigged sailing ship DARTFORD in broad-side view flying the red ensign of the British Merchant Marine The ship's name can be seen along the hull 1910 watercolor paper cm 48 9 62 Australian National Maritime Museum object history credit line Signed Dated lower right Bunbury 10 The DARTFORD was an iron-hulled three masted sailing ship of 1327 tons Built in 1877 by Mounsey Foster in Sunderland England the sailing ship was well known in both Australian and New Zealand waters DARTFORD sailed under the English flag for a variety of owners including John T Morton London 1877-1883 G Traill Sons 1883-1900 and D Cosar Sons 1900-1908 <br/>Purchased in 1908 by New Zealand's Union Steam Ship Company the DARTFORD began a new career as a training ship DARTFORD sailed into Bunbury Western Australia with 12 cadets in July 1909 during its first voyage in this new capacity Departing Bunbury fully laden with a cargo of jarrah timber the ship set sail for Wellington in August Used variously as a sail-training ship and coal hulk for the next 38 years DARTFORD was eventually dismantled and beached on Rangitoto Island in 1946 accession number ANMM Collection 00040034 http //emuseum anmm gov au/code/emuseum asp id 10288 Australian National Maritime Museum PD-old-auto-1923 1910 Dartford ship 1877 20th-century sailing ships in paintings 1910 paintings Images from the Australian National Maritime Museum George Bourne
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