10th May, 2016 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Courageous')
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[M] AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING PORTRAIT...
AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING PORTRAIT FIGUREHEAD FROM THE BRIGANTINE EMILY BURNYEAT, 1862
carved from laminated yellow pine as a three-quarter length lady clutching a flower to her chest, her hair tied in a ribbon, decorated bodice, skirts and scroll terminus with slotted base and flat back with thole pin and metal bracket fixing (repainted) - 42in. (107cm.) high; together with a copy of Mariners' Market, 1961; and other data
(2)
Literature: Rolt, L.T.C.: Mariners' Market, Privately Published for Burnyeat, Liverpool by Newman Neame Ltd, 1961 and depicting this lot on the cover.
The Emily Burnyeat, named for the wife of William Burnyeat, the founder of the eponymous Whitehaven firm, was a wooden brigantine of 128 tons which, with her consort barque Sarah Burnyeat, plied a steady trade for over thirty years. Both were built at Gowan's Yard, Berwick in 1861-2. The Emily Burnyeat found fame of a sort when, during an Atlantic crossing bound for the Mersey, a violent storm had disabled all of her crew save the Master and a cabin boy of fourteen. In a remarkable feat of endurance, the Master (possibly a Captain Bale) managed, almost single-handedly, to navigate his ship to the Mersey. Unable to hove to for a pilot, he sailed on and ran the Emily Burnyeat aground on the Sloyne before collapsing from exhaustion. She disappears from the Lloyd's Register by 1896.
carved from laminated yellow pine as a three-quarter length lady clutching a flower to her chest, her hair tied in a ribbon, decorated bodice, skirts and scroll terminus with slotted base and flat back with thole pin and metal bracket fixing (repainted) - 42in. (107cm.) high; together with a copy of Mariners' Market, 1961; and other data
(2)
Literature: Rolt, L.T.C.: Mariners' Market, Privately Published for Burnyeat, Liverpool by Newman Neame Ltd, 1961 and depicting this lot on the cover.
The Emily Burnyeat, named for the wife of William Burnyeat, the founder of the eponymous Whitehaven firm, was a wooden brigantine of 128 tons which, with her consort barque Sarah Burnyeat, plied a steady trade for over thirty years. Both were built at Gowan's Yard, Berwick in 1861-2. The Emily Burnyeat found fame of a sort when, during an Atlantic crossing bound for the Mersey, a violent storm had disabled all of her crew save the Master and a cabin boy of fourteen. In a remarkable feat of endurance, the Master (possibly a Captain Bale) managed, almost single-handedly, to navigate his ship to the Mersey. Unable to hove to for a pilot, he sailed on and ran the Emily Burnyeat aground on the Sloyne before collapsing from exhaustion. She disappears from the Lloyd's Register by 1896.
Sold for £17,980
Estimated at £12,000 - £14,000
(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)
AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING PORTRAIT FIGUREHEAD FROM THE BRIGANTINE EMILY BURNYEAT, 1862
carved from laminated yellow pine as a three-quarter length lady clutching a flower to her chest, her hair tied in a ribbon, decorated bodice, skirts and scroll terminus with slotted base and flat back with thole pin and metal bracket fixing (repainted) - 42in. (107cm.) high; together with a copy of Mariners' Market, 1961; and other data
(2)
Literature: Rolt, L.T.C.: Mariners' Market, Privately Published for Burnyeat, Liverpool by Newman Neame Ltd, 1961 and depicting this lot on the cover.
The Emily Burnyeat, named for the wife of William Burnyeat, the founder of the eponymous Whitehaven firm, was a wooden brigantine of 128 tons which, with her consort barque Sarah Burnyeat, plied a steady trade for over thirty years. Both were built at Gowan's Yard, Berwick in 1861-2. The Emily Burnyeat found fame of a sort when, during an Atlantic crossing bound for the Mersey, a violent storm had disabled all of her crew save the Master and a cabin boy of fourteen. In a remarkable feat of endurance, the Master (possibly a Captain Bale) managed, almost single-handedly, to navigate his ship to the Mersey. Unable to hove to for a pilot, he sailed on and ran the Emily Burnyeat aground on the Sloyne before collapsing from exhaustion. She disappears from the Lloyd's Register by 1896.
carved from laminated yellow pine as a three-quarter length lady clutching a flower to her chest, her hair tied in a ribbon, decorated bodice, skirts and scroll terminus with slotted base and flat back with thole pin and metal bracket fixing (repainted) - 42in. (107cm.) high; together with a copy of Mariners' Market, 1961; and other data
(2)
Literature: Rolt, L.T.C.: Mariners' Market, Privately Published for Burnyeat, Liverpool by Newman Neame Ltd, 1961 and depicting this lot on the cover.
The Emily Burnyeat, named for the wife of William Burnyeat, the founder of the eponymous Whitehaven firm, was a wooden brigantine of 128 tons which, with her consort barque Sarah Burnyeat, plied a steady trade for over thirty years. Both were built at Gowan's Yard, Berwick in 1861-2. The Emily Burnyeat found fame of a sort when, during an Atlantic crossing bound for the Mersey, a violent storm had disabled all of her crew save the Master and a cabin boy of fourteen. In a remarkable feat of endurance, the Master (possibly a Captain Bale) managed, almost single-handedly, to navigate his ship to the Mersey. Unable to hove to for a pilot, he sailed on and ran the Emily Burnyeat aground on the Sloyne before collapsing from exhaustion. She disappears from the Lloyd's Register by 1896.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Courageous'), 10th May, 2016
