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J. HOOD (C. 1865) The four-masted barque Port Jackson under full sail Signed 'J. Hood' (lower right) Watercolour heightened with gouache; together with another by the same hand 14 x 20 1/2in. (35.5 x 52cm.) Framed and glazed (2) £30-50 | Nil |
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| 2 | C. CARTER (C. 1908) The full-rigged ship Le Hogue Signed (lower right) 'C. Carter 1908' Watercolour 15 1/2 x 19 1/2in. (39.5 x 49.5cm.) Framed and glazed £80-120 | Nil |
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| 3 | HAROLD PERCIVAL (1868-1914) The full masted barque Port Jackson under reduced sail in a swell Signed and dated 'H. Percival 1885' (lower left), with artist's inscription to reverse and later Australian trade label Watercolour 18 1/2 x 26 3/4in. (47 x 68cm.) Framed and glazed Built in 1882 by Alexander Hall & Co., the Port Jackson was well known for many years as a training vessel for cadets of the mercantile marine. During the First World War she reverted to carrying cargo and on April 28th, 1917 was carrying maize from Buenos Aires to Cork when she was torpedoed and sunk 180 miles off Fastnet with the loss of the captain and thirteen crew. £300-500 | Nil |
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| 4 | F.H. LEIKE, (19th CENTURY) The famous tea clipper Ariel passing Eddystone Lighthouse Indistinctly signed 'F.H. Leike' (lower right) Oil on canvas 17 1/2 x 23 1/2in. (44.5 x 60cm.) Framed Built in 1865 by Robert Steele & Co. for Shaw, Lowther & Maxton, Ariel was a composite clipper - iron framed with wooden planking. Named for the sprite in Shakespeare's The Tempest she was considered by the authority Basil Lubbock to be a perfect beauty to every nautical man who ever saw her... she satisfied the eye and put all in love with her without exception. She was also one of the fastest vessels afloat, but was lost in 1872 with all hands en route from London to Sydney. £300-500 | Nil |
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| 5 | G. WATERS (19TH CENTURY) A full-rigged British ship under reduced sail in heavy seas Signed and dated 'G. Water, 85' (lower right) Oil on canvas 25 1/2 x 36in. (65 x 91.5cm.) Framed £300-500 | Nil |
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| 6 | CHINESE SCHOOL (C.1870) A barque-rigged auxiliary-screw warship flying the flag of a full admiral Oil on canvas 18 x 23in. (46 x 58.5cm.) Framed £500-700 | Nil |
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| 7 | ENGLISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) H.M.S. Rapid backing her mainsails, with cutter abeam Signed and dated 'Castle, 1896' (lower right) Watercolour and body colour heightened with white 10 1/2 x 15 1/2in. (27 x 39.5cm.) Mounted on card with ship's name and naval crown painted lower centre. Framed and glazed Laid down at the Devonport Dockyard in 1881, fitted with Maudeslay engines and launched in 1883, the 12 gun corvette H.M.S. Rapid served with the Australian Squadron in 1888. By 1906 she was hulked, renamed C.7 in 1912 for use as a coal hulk, she was revived in 1916 for use as an accommodation ship and renamed Hart. She was sold for scrapping at Gibraltar in 1948. £100-150 | Nil |
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| 8 | E.H. KITTOE (19TH CENTURY) The schooner-rigged steamship Acacia off a coastline Signed and dated 'E.H. Kittoe 1882' (lower right) Watercolour and body colour 13 x 18 1/2in. (33 x 47cm.) Framed and glazed. Frame stamped to top for Taddy & Co. Built by R.R. Rex in 1871 for Ross & Co., the 225 ton Australian barque Acacia was a general cargo vessel which enjoyed a long and uneventful career. On June 20th 1904 she sailed from Port Esperance for Adelaide and ran into a succession of violent gales. Nothing more was seen of her until nine months later when wreckage and bodies were discovered near Mainwaring, Tasmania. £150-250 | Nil |
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| 9 | EDUOARD ADAM OF LE HAVRE (1847-1910) The brigantine-rigged screw steamship A.C. de Freitas underway off a headland Signed and dated 'Ed. Adam 1888 Havre' (lower right) Oil on canvas 24 x 36in. (61 x 91.5cm.) Framed £500-800 | Nil |
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| 10 | G. Waters (C. 1860) A barque-rigged twin funnel steamship in heavy seas Signed 'G. Waters' (lower right) Oil on canvas 25 x 36in. (63.5 x 91.5cm.) Framed £300-500 | Nil |
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| 11 | ENGLISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) The barquentine-rigged steamship Salamis of the Aberdeen White Star Line, underway off a headland Watercolour - heightened with white 9 1/2 x 14 1/4in. (24 x 36cm.) Mounted on card, inscribed 'Salamis N.S.W. Naval Brigade contingent to China Capta F. Hixson R.N. Commander in Chief' with the house flag painted to centre. Framed and glazed Built in 1875 for the Australian trade, she was sold to Norway in 1899. £100-150 | Nil |
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| 12 | ARCHIBALD ANDREWS (20th CENTURY) The White Star Liner Medic underway off a headland; and the troop transport Templemore heading out to sea Signed and dated (lower right) 'Archibald Andrews 1902' Watercolour - with touches of body colour, heightened with white 8 x 12in. (20 x 30.5cm.) Framed and glazed Built in 1899 especially for the Australia - Cape of Good Hope service, Medic was sold in 1928 and renamed Hektoria, a whale factory ship. She was torpedoed on 11th September, 1942 by U-608 in the North Atlantic. £30-50 | Nil |
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| 13 | EUGENE GRANDIN OF LE HAVRE (1833-1919) A French paddle steamer off a coastline. Signed and dated 'Eugene Grandin Havre 1888' (lower right) Oil on canvas 17 1/2 x 25 1/4in. (44.5 x 64cm.) Framed £400-600 | Nil |
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| 14 | FRENCH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) The French schooner-rigged screw steamship St. Andre of Caen, off a headland presumed to be South Foreland Inscribed (centre) 'S/S Saint Andre Caen, Capt. Esnol' Watercolour and body colour 16 1/2 x 25in. (42 x 63.5cm.) Framed and glazed Built in 1907 by Soc. Navale de l'Ouest for Ateliers & Chantiers de France, the Saint Andre was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the English Channel on December 19th, 1917. £200-300 | Nil |
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| 15 | NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) The steam yacht Calpe entering the Port of Naples Watercolour and body colour, inscribed to centre 'Calpe entering the Port of Naples on the 1855' 19 x 28in. (48 x 71cm.) Framed and glazed £200-300 | Nil |
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| 16 | EDUOARD ADAM OF LE HAVRE (1847-1910) The French screw steamship Ville de Rouen Signed and dated 'Ed Adam 1903 Havre' (lower right) Oil on canvas 23 x 36in. (58.5 x 91.5cm.) Framed Built in 1903 by Chantiers de la Mediterranee for the Soc. Anon. de Vapeur Longs Courriers, Ville de Rouen registered 4,721 tons and measured 354.4 feet long with a 47.6 foot beam, drew a 27.3 foot draft and was powered by triple expansion engines. She was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean by an unidentified submarine on the 18th July, 1916. £400-600 | Nil |
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| 17 | VICTOR E. ADAM OF LE HAVRE (1868-1938) The passenger cargo steamship Ville de Majunga off a headland Signed and dated 'Victor.E.Adam.35.' (lower right) Oil on canvas 14 1/2 x 21 1/2in. (37 x 55cm.) Framed Built in 1931 for the Clan Line of Steamers owned by C.W. Cayzer & Company, Ville de Majunga was sold to Cie. Havraise Peninsulaire, Havre, but managed by Clan Line between 1942-1944. £500-800 | Nil |
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| 18 | EUGENE GRANDIN OF LE HAVRE (1833-1919) An American full-rigged ship under all plain sail, inward bound for France Signed and dated 'Eugene Grandin Havre 1895' (lower right) Oil on canvas 17 1/2 x 25 1/2in. (44.5 x 65cm.) Framed £400-600 | Nil |
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| 19 | Edwin Galea (1934 - ) Birth of an Era Signed 'Ed Galea' (lower right) Watercolour 12 x 15½in. (30.5 x 39.5cm.) Framed and glazed, together with another by the same artist, The Pamir, signed 'Ed Galea' (lower right), watercolour, 11½ x 17½in. (29 x 44.5cm.) Framed and glazed Provenance: Purchased from the artist's studio. (2) £500-800 | Nil |
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| 20 | EMMET BRADY (1846-1928) Busy shipping in the Clyde (?) Signed Emmet Brady (lower left) Watercolour, heightened with white 29 1/2 x 45 1/4in. (75 x 115cm.) Framed and glazed £400-600 | Nil |
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| 21 | MAX PARSONS Shipping off Scarborough harbour Oil on board, signed Max Parsons (lower right) and inscribed Scarborough (lower left) 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 (29 x 39.5cm.) Framed £200-300 | 5% |
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| 22 | J. CLUETT, 20th Century H.M.S. Sybille steaming with yachts beyond Watercolour heightened with white 8 x 14½in. (20 X 37cm.) Framed and glazed A 2nd Class Cruiser launched in 1890 at Newcastle, Sybille was stationed in South Africa. In January 1901 she was ordered to Lambert's Bay to support the army in their efforts to prevent Boer irregulars attacking Cape Colony. During the evening of the 15th, the weather deteriorated and, to prevent her running ashore, her acting Commander, Lt. Hubert Holland, took her out to sea to ride out the storm. Returning to the anchorage early in the morning of the 16th, Sybille struck a reef and stuck fast. Although all but one member of the crew was rescued, the ship quickly became a total loss. £100-150 | Nil |
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| 23 | J. MILLAR (19th Century) The steam packet Kintyre steaming off a headland Signed and dated 'J Millar/1888' (lower left) Oil on board 15 x 24in. (38 x 61cm.) Framed Built by Robertson & Co. of Greenock and owned by The Campbeltown & Glasgow Steam Packet Joint Stock Co., the Kintyre was a small passenger steamer that occasionally carried cargo. Launched in 1868 she enjoyed a long career until on 18th September 1907, she was in a collision with the steamer Maori, some distance from Wemyss Point. The Maori, recently completed by Denny of Dunbarton, was undergoing speed trials on the measured mile at Skelmorlie. The collision happened at 11.45am and she settled quickly -- within four minutes her stern was submerged, she sank soon after. £400-600 | Nil |
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| 24 | CIRCLE OF NICHOLAS CONDY Yachts of the Royal Yacht Squadron racing off Cowes Castle with a warship beyond Oil on Panel with supply trade label for Rowney & Forster on reverse. 10¼ x 13in. (26 x 33cm.) Framed £400-600 | Nil |
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| 25 | A. DE SIMONE (FL. 1860-1900) An auxiliary warship of the Royal Navy under steam off the Bay of Naples in company with other shipping Oil on canvas 13½ x 20 1/2in. (34.5 x 52cm.) Framed £800-1000 | Nil |
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| 26 | WILLIAM ANDERSON (1757-1837) A Dutch fishing fleet departing on a calm sunlit morning Oil on canvas 13 x 19in. (33 x 48cm.) Framed £1000-1500 | Nil |
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| 27 | ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS MATTHEW CONDY (1816-1851) A racing schooner of the Royal Yacht Squadron in company with a warship of the Red Squadron Oil on canvas 45 x 71 1/2in. (114.5 x 181.5cm.) £7000-9000 | Nil |
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| 28 | THE LOG BOOK OF THE AMERICAN-WAR-OF-INDEPENDENCE 20-GUN CONVOY ESCORT PERSEUS, CAPTAINED BY THE HON. GEORGE KEITH ELPHINSTONE BETWEEN THE LIZARD AND SANDY HOOK, NEW YORK, 1776, AND LATTERLY BY WILLIAM OGILVIE CRUISING THE AMERICAN COAST IN PERSEUS AND THE PRIZE THOMAS IN 1777 written over approximately eighty hand-ruled pages in a fair hand, the first cruise between the Lizard and New York dating between August 1st and October 12th 1776 with regular weather reports and much detail on how Elphinstone ran the convoy, handled his ship and pursued "strange sails": September 3rd: Made signal for the Convoy to come under our stern & Bore down upon the Leeward most ships at ½ past 6 hauled on the wind & shortened sail. 16 of the Convoy in sight..., September 13th: Blowing hard... at 9 PM Thos. Hanigh[?] fell from the Main Topsail yard arm in to the sea who we gave up for lost Blowing too hard for hoisting the Boats out. Fired 8 guns as a signal for the Convoy to make more sail..; September 26th: At 10 AM Saw a Schooner amongst the Convoy, bore down and found her to be a Rebel, gave chace, made the signal for the Convoy to come under our stern at Noon.. September 27th: Alone continuing to chace and gaining very fast.. at 4 began to fire at the chace which continues rowing and sailing. at 5 convoy in sight & continuing to fire at the chace, at 8 fired Swivels & small arms at the chace which struck & proved to be the Viper sloop [?funded] by commission from the Congress of America 9 days from Boston...the prisoners on Board in Number 41 -- ; September 28th: at 5PM saw a sail to the NSW standing across us. At 7 saw the above heaving SSW, gave chace at 9 finding the chace to be a rebel began to fire. at 10 she struck and proved to be the Betsy Schooner load with Dye, wood & potashes &c. from Boston... brought the prisoners on Board & sent a Mate one Midshipman & men to take charge of her... The second cruise under Command of William Ogilvie between October 25th and November 3rd, capturing an un-named brig as prize on November 2nd; The third and last cruise logged in this volume is for the prize snow Thomas from Cape Fear to Antigua between January 16th and February 8th, 1777. Bound between vellum-covered boards, the front with faded inscription. 8 x 6½in. (20 x 16.5cm.) HMS Perseus was a 20-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Sphinx class, ordered on the last day of October 1775. Built rapidly over the winter months of 1775-6, she measured 108ft 1in. in length with a 30ft 6½ in. beam and was launched on 20 March 1776. The speed of her construction and the nature of her design are both highly indicative of the turbulence that surrounded the Admiralty in those months. The relationship between the British government and her American colonies was rapidly dissolving and war was expected. It was an unsettling prospect as the British had no quality dockyards on the eastern seaboard of America. To fight a war, moreover, every single British soldier and gun would have to be transported across the full breadth of the Atlantic and then maintained there with an unbroken supply of provisions, all of them sent from England. In 1775, therefore, the Navy was desperate to increase its number of small, fast ships that could escort the crucial trans-Atlantic convoys and also threaten American privateers and the hostile frigates of their French allies. The Perseus was part of that building programme. As usual in war-time, the Royal Dockyards concentrated on the largest ships, and small, privately owned yards built the frigates. The Perseus, therefore, was built by John Randall and Co. of Rotherhithe. Her construction cost the Admiralty £4,507.1.4d, with another £4,310.5.10d going on fitting out and coppering. It is unsurprising from the speed of her construction that she was in a poor state when her first captain, George Elphinstone, the future Lord Keith, came aboard in July 1776 and prepared to take her to America. Elphinstone went on to have an eminent naval career as a full admiral and a viscount, and at the apogee of his service he particularly distinguished himself in the orchestration of the defences to meet the threat of invasion in home waters during the Napoleonic Wars. When Napoleon finally surrendered and was taken to Plymouth, it was Lord Keith who dealt with him personally and broke the news that he was to be exiled to the desolate rock of St. Helena. Connoisseurs of the Patrick O'Brien novels will recognise Lord Keith and his wife 'Queeny' who appear in them frequently. O'Brien researched much of the detail for his novels in logbooks such as these. The Perseus was Elphinstone's second ever command and his service aboard her on the East Coast of America was unmistakable proof of his quality; indeed so much of the War of American Independence was a disaster for British forces, but Elphinstone was involved in the few distinguished successes, some of which feature in this log. Elphinstone was soon to make his mark on the Perseus and before long he had her sailing as fast as any frigate, and he declared her to be the 'avowed and most complete little ship in America and I believe the swiftest in Europe.' Her service record suggests no different, and by the end of the war she had captured, or been involved in the capture of, no less than eight American and French privateers. Some of those captures, and the fights leading up them, are described in detail in this log. Written in the hand of William Ogilvie, the handwriting is clear and legible, offering a rare insight into a period in which the Royal Navy was stretched as never before and challenged with success by the French Navy. There are few moments of British maritime greatness from the War of American Independence. The French fought with bravery and skill at both the Battle of Ushant in 1778 and again at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781, the latter leading directly to the surrender of Yorktown which in turn led to the end of the war with Britain losing her American colonies. This log is particularly rare, therefore, for its illustration of British success in a war that is usually noted for the failure of British sea power. £7000-9000 | Nil |
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| 29 | A PEN AND INK PICTURE OF SIR JOHN PENNINGTON possibly 17th Century, in the form of an engraver's original, the cartouche inscribed The true portracture of that Famous & Valliant Sea Capt. / Sr. John Pennington. Knight of the Gentlemen in Ordinarie of his Ma'tie / privie Chamber Governor & Captaine of Sandowne Castle in Kent and / Vice Admiral of his Ma'ties Fleet for this expedit'ion Ad 1636 9 x 7in. (23 x 18cm.) Framed and glazed Sir John Pennington (1568-1646) held a series of high-profile naval appointments in a life-long naval career that began in obscurity. By 1617 he served as a vice admiral under Sir Walter Raleigh (in the Orinoco expedition) and ended as Lord High Admiral to Charles I, albeit one without a fleet to command as it was controlled by Parliament by this stage of the Civil War. It is thought he died when Bristol was stormed by Fairfax. | Nil |
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| 30 | CAPTAIN COOK: A COPPER PROOF STRIKE OR CAST OF THE COMMEMORATIVE MEDALLION ISSUED BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY IN 1784 the 1½in. obverse impression to the centre 3½in. (9cm.) diameter £100-150 | 17.5% |
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