Happy Hallowe'en!

[anteros_lmc]

I confess I have shamelessly nicked this from the Navy Records Society's tweetstream...but look!! A ship called Hallowe'en :D



This is the 920-ton iron tea clipper, Hallowe'en and she was built, along with her sister ship Blackadder, by Maudslay, Son & Field at Bay Wharf, Greenwich in 1870. Both ships were commissioned by John Willis, who obviously had a predilection for spooky ship names as he also happened to own Cutty Sark, which lest we forget, is named after a witch's semmit! According to the catalogue record accompanying this painting on the NMM Collections site, Hallowe'en was a very fast sailor and once recorded a 91-day passage from Shanghai with a cargo of tea in 1874. Sadly this lovely ship was wrecked off Salcombe, Devon in 1887.

Comments

[esteven]

Hallowe'en and Blackadder go ever so well together. *g*

Maybe they once devised cunning plans?

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University? *g*

They are perfectly named ships aren't they?

[esteven]

and who is now a UN High Commissioner? Indeed! ;)

Nothing more perfect!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous isn't she?

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

This Internet is so small... This week I used Blackadder font, and looking for its creator's name, I came across a mention about Blackadder the ship. *g* Before your post, I mean.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

How about that?! Spooky! ;)

[kittycallum.livejournal.com]

There was a Hallowe'en and a Blackadder? It's almost like they had *me* name them ... she's quite a beautiful vessel though, even in the picture she looks speedy.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

They're brilliant names aren't they? And they're even better along side Cutty Sark :) Are you sure you didn't name them?!