WRT 150: Trains and Ships

1. WRT 150: Trains and Ships

7. Canterbury Star

8. The Portsmouth Abbey School sailing team on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. The photograph is by Billy Black.

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

12. A regatta

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

15. Britannia

17. The Seawolf is a submarine.

19. British Cruiser • HMS Belfast

21. In 1855, the Persia, the largest steamer in the world was launched at the Wood and Napier shipyard in Glasgow.

22. Persia

23. The Ships of the Great Lakes

24. The Moonlight, built in Milwaukee in 1874, had a topsail schooner sail plan. Carrying iron ore, she foundered in a gale on Lake Superior.

25. Moonlight

26. 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.

28. The Lizzie Metzner was a Manitowoc lumber schooner built in 1888. She was sunk in the Bay of Quinte around 1917.

29. Lizzie Metzner

30. 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.

31. 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

33. Stuart H. Dunn

34. 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.

38. 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.

40. 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.

43. 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.

45. U. S. S. ConstitutionCharlestown, Massachusetts1907 Photograph by N. L. Stebbins