I´ve found this mistery ship in the middle of a collection of photos which came from the Toronto Public Library. This ship appears without date and without author. I wonder what ship could her be...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43021516@N06/5445810326/in/set-72157626868833460/
The photograph could be (by its quality) of the end of the S.XIX or the begining of the S.XX. The ship is a steam ship and it is beset in the ice. In the front of the ship are a man and what seems to be a boat or a sledge.
But, besides finding this little mistery, I´ve found this interesting web site, that perhaps a lot of you already knows, is this:
http://ve.torontopubliclibrary.ca/frozen_ocean/index.htm
I am sure that you are going to find it as interesting as I believe it is. There are a lot of ancient maps and rare sketches.
Yep, that looks like a steam ship. Interesting image. Can't wait to have a better look at the Toronto Library website! You find some really neat things!
ResponderEliminarIt helps me the "All powerful" google. Hehe!!
ResponderEliminarI think that it could be the "Thetis" one of the rescue ships of the Greely expedition because the position of the smokestack, the disposition of the masts, etc.
http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/t4/thetis-i.htm
It could be one of Frank Hurleys photo's of Shackletons Endurance,they look similar
ResponderEliminarAt first sight I thought the same, but if you compare the two last masts they are different, this ship have (I don´t know how to say it in English ¿vergas?) the "horizontal" poles. The Endurance hadn´t got them, but the discovery of Scott is more similar. What I don´t know is if you can put or quit this kind of poles on a ship during a trip.
ResponderEliminarHey!!!, I think that I have the solution...Could it be this ship??
ResponderEliminarhttp://visionsnorth.blogspot.com.es/2012/07/retracing-bradfords-voyage.html
It is the "Panther" the rigging is pretty similar, and it makes sense because Bradford was Canadian. I have to ask to Russell.
The mistery has been solved!!! In fact the ship is the Panther (see figure 5 in the link below):
ResponderEliminarhttp://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/article.cfm?request=436
How easy. Great work Andrés!!! You are a "Crack".
It is clear that I am spending a bored evening.
Capital work, Andres! Those horizontal vergas are called yards. They are "spars on a mast from which sails are set."
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