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Happy Hallowe'en!
Oct. 31st, 2012 11:55 amI 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.
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.
