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| Keywords: Joseph Heard - painting of the Lord Ashburton being driven by the gale.jpg 1857 1859 oil on canvas cm 61 92 object history credit line The full-rigged Lord Ashburton was built at Workington in 1854 for Girvin Co of Liverpool and measured at 897 tons During her short life she traded out of Liverpool to North America mainly the Maritime Provinces of Canada She was however in Gibraltar in December 1856 from where she sailed for Toulon to load a cargo for Saint John New Brunswick On 19th January 1857 when nearly at her destination she was caught in a savage hurricane off Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy just a few miles out from Saint John and sunk All her officers were drowned with only eight of twenty-nine crew saved <ref>http //www bonhams com/auctions/18922/lot/93/ Bonhams</ref><small> reflist </small> accession number 1 http //www wreckhunter net/DataPages/lordashburton-dat htm wreckhunter net<br/>2 http //www bonhams com/auctions/18922/lot/93/ Bonhams London 13 Sep 2011 lot 93 PD-old-auto-1923 1859 Joseph Heard Lord Ashburton ship 1843 Sea storms in art 19th-century sailing ships in paintings 19th-century paintings location missing Images from Bonhams | ||||
