Queen Elizabeth coming into Dunkerque

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H. Versailles (c.1889)
Queen Elizabeth coming into Dunkerque
signed, inscribed and dated 'H. Versailles/DK 1889' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in. (60.8 x 91.4 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Owned by T. Dunlop & Sons and built by Alexander Stephen & Sons at Linthouse (Glasgow), Queen Elizabeth was registered at 2,507 tons and measured 300 feet in length with a 40 foot beam. After a very short service life, she was wrecked at Ikisimu on 22^nd March 1891 whilst on passage from Japan to Manilla carrying a cargo of coal.

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