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Classic clipper ship for Scott #clipper #ship #rose #traditional #tattoo @sevendoorstattoo (at Seven Doors Tattoo)
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Montague Dawson (1890-1973) - Onward - the ‘Norman Court’
Oil on canvas. 40 x 50 inches, 101.6 x 127 cm.
Estimate: US$50,000-70,000.
Sold Hindman, Chicago, 10 May 2022 for US$75,000 incl B.P.
Purchased from Frost & Reed in 1963, the painting has passed down by descent until its sale here.
The tea clipper Norman Court was designed by William Rennie and built in the shipyard of A & J Inglis, Glasgow in 1869. Just under 198 feet in length, the ship operated on the same routes as her contemporaries Cutty Sark,ThermopylaeandTaeping, winning the annual tea race in 1872 with a time of 96 days. Rerigged as a barque in 1878, the ship was sailing to Greenock from Java with a cargo of sugar in March 1883 when it was driven aground in Cymyran Bay, Anglesey, during a force nine gale. The crew took to the rigging to save themselves.
Attempts were made by lifeboats from Rhosneigr and Holyhead to reach the stricken vessel but were thwarted by the conditions. More than a day and night passed before the heroic rescue of 20 crewmen was made by the Holyhead lifeboat men in the Rhosneigr boat. Only two of the crew were lost. Remnants of the wreck can be seen at low tide.
Six years ago (gawd!) I posted a painting by Sir Frank Brangwyn entitled Wreck - the last resource which gives a feel for the plight of the crew.
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Summer breeze and the sound of streams <3
Y’all I got my first clipper today
I love her
07.28.2020
atmospheric pressure annoys the hell out of me
sometimes the sky is HEAVY and sometimes the sky is LESS HEAVY, you wake up every godforsaken day not knowing HOW HEAVY THE SKY WILL BE because that dumb blue bitch is a fluctuating MERCURIAL HARLOT and I am SICK OF IT
the notes are a 3-way-handshake between people with pressure-related joint pain, people with pressure-related migraines, and autistic folks with pressure-related Everything Feels Like Shit Today For No Apparent Reason. you’re all valid fuck the sky
hold the fuck up.
okay which irrelevant-looking weather number should I have been paying attention to all along and how far apart are the “too high” and “too low” versions of the number?
I have no clue what numbers indicate this, nor how to read them, but I do always know when either a Clipper or Chinook is coming through the next day, because my migranes will get 5000x worse and my injured knee (and as of this year elbow, but I’m hoping that goes away or at least minimizes as it heals) will swell up like a pain balloon. I can tell the difference purely by the fact that Clippers are worse and also make my ankle act up too. Like there’s always jokes about how old people can feel the weather changing, but that is 100% true and not restricted by age, and the only reason old people are more likely to know this is because they’ve had longer to both aquire and learn to read this kind of ailment.
Yay snow!❄
