Lithograph
by Thomas Picken
National Library of Australia after O.W.Brierly (nla.pic-an5601430)
PICTURE GALLERY OF SAILING SHIPS
Emigrants
arriving, Sydney Harbour, N.S.W.. 1853
Lithograph
by Thomas Picken
National Library of Australia
after
O.W.Brierly
(nla.pic-an5601430)
(For details of other pictures
of
these ships and
steamers up to 1914 go to:-
1. http://www.findboatpics.com
For ships in
Sir Henry Brett's
"WHITE WINGS" go to:-
2. http://www.findboatpics.co
Other Related Websites:
3. A Picture
Gallery of steamships up to 1914:-
http://www.findboatpics.com.au
4. For
Steam and Motor ships 1918-1970s go to:-
http://www.findboatpics.net.au
5. For Jack Spurling
and Antoine Roux
watercolours of
sailing ships:
http://www.spurlingandrouxwatercolours.com
6. For Aquatints (E. Duncan after W.J. Huggins),
Lithographs (T.G
Dutton, J.R. Isaac and Currier
Ives)
and Engravings (from the Illustrated
London News) of sailing
ships and early steamers:
http://www.19thcenturyshipportraitsinprints.com
INDEX OF
WITH A TWO
LETTER KEY
OTHER HEADING
A
B C
D
E F
G
H I
J
K L
M
N O
P&Q
R S
T
U&V
W
XY&Z
(CLICK
ON
FIRST LETTER OF VESSEL'S NAME)
Ship
pictures are shown with the
following detaila (left hand side
above the ship
image):-
NAME -
Then a letter indicating hull construction
material, a
number
indicating the number of masts and a letter indicating the
ship's
rig:-
HULL
CONSTRUCTION: w-wood, c- composite
(iron frame and planking),
i-iron, st-steel
NUMBER
OF MASTS (1, 2, 3, 4 or more)
RIG: s
- SHIP - square rig on all of three or more
masts;
bk
- BARQUE or BARK in a vessel with 3 or more masts
square
rig on
all
but the last (mizzen) mast;
bkn
-BARQUENTINE or BARKENTEEN - in
a vessel with 3 or
more masts with square rig on the foremast
only;
br - BRIG
- 2 masted vessel with square rig on both masts;
bgn - BRIGANTINE
- 2 masted vessel with square rig only on
the foremast
GROSS TONS -
one ton = 100 cubic feet
The formula for
measuring tonnage was changed by Act of Parliament
and introduced
in 1836. Tonnage
measured before then was called om
(old
measurement) and after that nm
(new
measurement). The change
came about
because of the changing
design of ships.
YEAR
OF
COMPLETION -
PLACE
WHERE BUILT
INDEX OF SHIPPING
LINES (AND KEY)
FOR PICTURE GALLERIES
Click
on a Key
to Enter
Picture Galleries
arranged
by companies)
KEY
AW
- Aberdeen White Star (Geo
Thompson & Co)
BB -
Blackball Line (James
Baines & Co, Liverpool)
BC
- Blue Cross Line (T & W Smith)
BW-
Blackwall Line (R & H
Green, London)
CA - A & J H Carmichael
& Co
CL
- Cambrian Line
(Williams & Roberts,
later T
Williams & Co)
CO
- J.P. Corry & Co.
CR - J J Craig
DC
- Dundee Clipper Line (D
Bruce & Co)
DD
- Duncan Dunbar, London
DM - Devitt
& Moore
DT - J Duthie, Sons & Co,
Aberdeen
EL - Elder Line (A L Elder
& Co, London)
GL - Glasgow Shipping Co,
later General
Shipping Co
(Aitken , Lilburn)
HI - Hine Brothers
HS - Shipping Lines from Hamburg
LA - Thomas Law & Co
MA
- G Marshall
MG -
Alexander McGregor &
Co
NI
- Alex Nicol & Co
NZ
- New Zealand Shipping Co
OR
- Orient Line (Anderson,
Anderson & Co. London)
RO
- D Rose & Co
SC
- Scottish Line (W H Ross
& Co, later G. Windram & Co)
SG
- G Smith & Co
SO - Joseph
Somes (later
Merchant Shipping Co)
SM
- Some Small Companies
SP -
James Sproat & Co Ltd
SS
- Shaw, Savill &
Albion, London
TA - Trinder Anderson &
Co
TM - Thames & Mersey Line
(J Heap & Sons)
TW -
Welsh County Line (W.Thomas, Sons & Co.
Ltd.)
WG
- Money Wigram & Sons,
London
WK
- T B Walker, London
WL
- John Willis & Son
WS - White
Star
(Pilkington &
Wilson, Liverpool)
WT - Watson Bros
WV - Waverly Line (Williamson, Milligan & Co)
OTHER LISTS
CT -
Convict Transports - A Few Indentified Images and
Some
Probables
Settlement of Wellington by the New Zealand Company.
Historical
gathering of
pioneer ships in Port Nicholson, March 8, 1840 - a
reconstruction
before
any re-use of this image)
SOURCES (Given under the image on the right hand sidee)
A.
Museums &
Libraries
‘Picture
Australia’ -
http://www.pictureaustralia.org
(Provides
access to
image/picture
collections in all
Australian National
and State Libraries and
Museums
National Library
of Australia,
Canberra, ACT
http://www.nla.gov.au
National
Maritime Museum,
Greenwich,
United Kingdom
http://www.nmmimages.com
State Library
of
New South
Wales,
Sydney, N.S.W.
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au
John Oxley Library,
State
Library of Queensland,
Brisbane,
QLD
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au
A.D. Edwardes Collection, State
Library of South
Australia,
Adelaide, SA
http://images.slsa.gov.au
W.L. Crowther
Library,
State
Library of Tasmania,
Hobart, TAS
http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au
State Library
of
Victoria,
Melbourne, VIC
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au
B.
Artists &
Photographers (Given where available under
the
image on the
left hand side)
British School 19th Century, oil paintings
Captain Thomas Robertson, settled in New Zealand, seaC.P. Williams, Great Britain, artist/lithographer
D.M.H. Little, Australia, artist, 1884-1963
David Alexander de Maus, New
Zealand,
photographer,
1847-1925
Frederick Charles
Gould, Great Britain, photographer,
1843 -1912
Frederick Garling,
Australia, artist, 1806 – 1873
F.I. Sorensen,
artist
(working in Cardiff c.1900)
Frederick Samuel
Gould (son of Frederick Charles
Gould), Great Britain,
photographer, 1867
– 1948
Frederick Tudgay,
Great Britain, artist, 1841 -
1921
G.Dell, Great
Britain, artist
G.H. Elvin, Great Britain, artist
active ca.
1810 – 1843/44
G.W.White,
New Zealand, artist
George Schutze, Australia, photographer
H. Howard, Great Britain, artist, 1769-1847
James Harris,
Great Britain, artist, 1810 -
1877
John Raphael
Isaac, Great Britain, artist/lithographer,
died 1871
Josiah Taylor,
Great Britain, artist, active 1857-71
John Robert
Charles (Jack) Spurling, Great
Britain,
artist, 1870 –
1933
Jacob Spin,
Netherlands, artist, 1806 -
1875
J.W. Vellacott,
Great Britain, artist
Louis Lebreton,
France, artist, 1818 – 1866
Matthew Thomas Clayton, New Zealand, artist, 1831-1922
R.A. Borstel, Australia, artist, active 1914-1918
R.B. Spencer, Great Britain, artist, active 1840-1874
R.H. Nibbs, Great Britain, artist, 1816-1893
William Hodges, Great Britain, artist, 1744-1797
W.J. Huggins, Great Britain, artist, 1781-1845
Red Jacket in
Hobsons Bay, Melbourne, 1856-1857
(with
the ships James Baines
and Lightning)
Artist:
Captain Thomas Robertson
Australian
National Maritime Museum
Reproduced
courtesy of the museum.
(ANMM
Image No. 00006060)
C. BOOKS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
(a) Illustrated
Newspaper Periodicals:
Illustrated
London News (1842 - 1891)
Illustrated
Sydney News (1853 - 1889)
Australian
Sketcher (1873 - 1889)
Vaughan Evans compiled indexes
of illustrations (including ships)
of Australian and New
Zealand interest.for each of these publications
These indexes are
available on the
website of the Australian
National Maritime
Museum.. The index
for the Illustrated
London
News
lists illustrations of over fifty sailing vessels from 1845 to 1881.
(b)
Books
An oustanding book with colour plates of watercolours by Jack
Spurling
of more than seventy well known sailing ships, including
many
in the Australian
and New Zealand trade, is "SAIL: The
Romance
of the Clipper
Ships". The book is pictured by Jack
Spurling, storied by
Basil Lubbock, and edited by F.A. Hook.
It was published in three
volumes in the first instance by the Blue
Peter Publishing
Company, London from 1927 to 1936. In 1972,
Grossett & Dunlap,
New York, published a facsimile reprint of
the
three volumes. A
composite volume "The Best of Sail" which
includes thirty-six
colour plates of Spurling's paintings was
published by Grossett
& Dunlap in 1977.
Basil Lubbock's
"The Colonial
Clippers", "The Blackwall Frigates"
and
"The Last of the Windjammers", Volumes
I and II, published
respectively in 1921, 1924,
1927 and 1928,
by Brown, Son &
Ferguson, Ltd., Glasgow, and have been
reprinted since, contains
photos
as well as
details of a large number
of sailing vessels that
were well known in the
Australia and New
Zealand trade. The
"Colonial
Clippers" contains photos of
more
than eighty such
sailing ships.
Frank C. Bowen's "The
Golden Age of Sail - Indiamen. Packets and
Clipper Ships with
Illustrations from Contemporary Engravings and
Paintings in
the MacPherson Collection" published in 1925 by Halton
& Truscott
Smith Ltd., London and Minton, Balch & Company, New
York,
contains
black & white and some colour reproductions of
lithographs by
T.G. Dutton
and J.R. Isaac
as well as of paintings in
the MacPherson
Collection held by the National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich, in
the United Kingdom.
Another
noteworthy source of information and ship pictures is Sir
Henry
Brett's "White
Wings:
Fifty Years of Sail in the New Zealand
Trade, 1850 to 1900"
(published in 1924) and his subsequent volume
"White Wings:
Founding of
the Provinces and Old Time Shipping"
(published 1928).
A composite
volume, "White Wings: Immigrant
Ships to New
Zealand
1840-1902",
edited by Cyril R. Bradwell, was
published by A.H. &
A.W. Reed
Ltd., Wellington.1984
Two other books
of New Zealand interest are Alan Bott's "The Sailing
Ships
of the New Zealand
Shipping Company 1873-1900"
(B T
Batsford Ltd,
London 1972) and David
Savill's "Sail to New
Zealand - The Story of Shaw
Savill &
Co1858-82" (Robert Hale Ltd,
London
1986). Both have
many pictures of
the
sailing ships of their
companies in the late
nineteenth
century.
David R.
MacGregor's "Merchant
Sailing Ships1815-1850",
"Merchant Sailing
Ships 1850-1875", "Fast Sailing Ships - Their
Design
and Construction
1775-1875", and "British and American
Clippers.
A Comparison of their Design, Construction and Performance
in
the 1850s"
(published by Conway Maritime Press Ltd., London) are
also
a rich
source of pictures and information.
"American Clipper Ships1833-1858" by
Octavius T.
Howe and
Frederick C. Matthews
(published
in two volumes in 1926 and 1927) by
the
Marine Research Society,
Salem,
Massachusetts) is another rich
source
of information and
pictures.
The
American
clipper ship prints published by Currier
& Ives of
"Red Jacket",
"Flying Cloud", "Lightning", and "Sovereign of the
Seas", which
carried people to
Australia in the
Gold Rush in the 1850s,
needs
mention.
The compilation "Clipper Ships - Currier & Ives Prints
No. 3,
introduction by Felix
Riesenberg" (published by The Studio
Limited, London
and William Edward Rudge, New York , 1932) has
colour
reproductions of twenty
one of these prints. including the four
clippers mentioned above.
The most difficult task faced by
the author was finding
pictured
of the ships
which brought German emigrants to South Australia
(beginning in
the late 1840s) and subsequently to Melbourne, Sydney
and
Queensland ports. The
ships of J.C. Godeffroy &
Sons, Hamburg,
pioneered this
trade and were joined by other German shipping
companies.
German
steamships are well
documented but German sailing ships
are not.
Unfortunately the Godeffroy
company went into liquidation in 1879 and
images of
their ships are hard to
find. For an introductory account see
Ronald
Parsons’ “Migrant Sailing Ships
from Hamburg” (Gould Books,
North
Adelaide1993).
(c) Catalogues
The printed catalogues
of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,
are a
central resource in
finding pictures of vessels of Australian and
New Zealand
interest, in
particular, the "Concise Catalogue of Paintings
in the
National Maritime
Museum", and the Museum's "General
Catalogue of Historic
Photographs, Volume II, Merchant Sailing Ships".
Online, the Museum's
catalogues of 'Historic Photographs' and 'Prints
and
Drawings' are important
sources. The latter with its many
thousands of
items is an outstanding
collection of lithographs, water
colours, etchings and drawings
of
vessels before they could be recorded
by
photography.
Other
noteworthy catalogues of paintings
which include
vessels of
Australian and New Zealand
interest are:
"Marine Paintings
and
Drawings in the Peabody Museum" by M.V. and
Dorothy Brewington;-
"More
Marine Paintings
& Drawings in the Peabody Museum" by
Phillip Chadwick
Foster Smith;
"Marine Paintings
and
Drawings in Mystic Seaport Museum" by
Dorothy E.R. Brewington; and
the
"Illustrated
Catalogue
of Marine Paintings in the Merseyside Maritime
Museum Liverpool
" by
Anthony Tibbles
D.
On Line
(a) Australia
Australian
national and state libraries
and museums, in particular, the
State
Library of Victoria
with its Malcolm Brodie shipping collection,
the Allan C.
Green collection of photographs and the David Little
postcard collection of
sailing
ships, and the State
Library of Soth
Australia's
A. D. Edwards
collection of 8,000 photographs mainly of
sailing vessels are
outstanding
resources.
The State Library of
Queensland's John Oxley Library has a
growing
and
significant collection
especially of sailing vessels in the Queensland
trade, and
similarly the W.L Crowther Library of the State
Library of
Tasmania of
ships in the Tasmanian
trade.
The National
Library of
Australia's strength is in its Rex Nan Kivell
collection of
maritime paintings and lithographs.
The State Library of
New South
Wales
has an excellent collection of
photographs of ships (steam
and sail) in Sydney harbour, and
a
collction of marine
paintings
by
Frederick Garling.
The Australian National
Maritime Museum is still relatively new but
has a
nascent and
growing collection of marine art.
There
are also maritime
collections at
the State
Library of Western
Australia
and
the Library of
the
Northern Territoy
but I am not
sufficientlyfamiliar with
them
and unable to make
any
comment.
By
searching the name
of a ship in the National Library of Australia's
website Picture
Australia,
images of the ship can be accessed on screen
from
all of the Australian
maritme image collections
(b) New Zealand
The
Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand, has an
excellent
collection of
photographs of sailing
ships that were in
the New
Zealand trade
and which can be accessed on
line. These
include the
Library.s collection of the photographs of ships
(sail and
steam) by
David
Alexander de Maus.
(c) United Kindom
The National Maritime
Museum,
Geenwich, remains the premier sourc
of
drawings,
sketches,
etchings, paintings
and lithographs of
sailing ships
before
photography became avaiable in the 1840s.
In photographs
of
sailing and other nineteenth century
ships, the
glass plates
of the
Thames
photographer Frederick Charles Gould and his son
Frederick
Samuel
Gould held in Greenwich provide a remarkable
record of sail
from
1855.
This author owes
special thanks
to the staff of the Picture Library of the
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,
for
their
unfailing
help and
cooperative assistance| while this website was
being put
together.
(d) United States
Apart from the great collections at
the
Peabody Museum at Salem
Massachusetts, and the Mystic Seaport Museum, the
Captain
Walter
F.
Lee
collection of
more than 6,000 photographs at the Monterey
Museum,
Monterey,
California, is of particular interest to Australia and New
Zealand. Unfortunately, none of
this collection is accessible online.
Chase
Weaver's "Guide to the
Allen
Knight and Capt. Walter Lee
Photographic Collections" at Monterey
ranks the Lee
Collection with
the Malcolm Brodie Collection in
Melbourne and the
A.D.
Edwards
Collection in Adelaide.
CONTACT
My name is Roy and I live
in Sydney Australia.
If you find a mistake
please contact me so that I can
correct
it. Or if
you
know of the
location of an image of a ship that
I have
missed
please let me know
or, if possible, send me a copy of the image by
email.
I can be
contacted
by
email
at:
roy@findboatpics.net
Queen Charlotte Sound
, New
Zealand. A group of Maoris in a
canoe approaching
a ship's
side. Another
ship in the
background
Painting by William Hodges who accompanied
State
Library of Victoria
Captain Cook in his
second voyage with the ships
(Image No. H5215)
Adventure and Resolution