The American tea clipper Staghound

細節

John Bentham-Dinsdale (b.1927)
The American tea clipper Staghound
signed 'John Bentham-Dinsdale' (lower left) and signed and inscribed 'The U.S. Tea Clipper Ship Staghound/John Bentham-Dinsdale' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm.)

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品專文

Staghound was an 'extreme' clipper and the first such vessel to be built by the great Donald McKay in his yard at East Boston. Launched on 7^th December 1850, she was registered at 1,534 tons American (about 1,100 British measurement) and was 215 feet in length with a 40 foot beam. Owned by Upton & Tappan of Boston, her first voyage was to San Francisco from where she crossed the Pacific to China before beginning a regular tea run from Whampoa to New York. Exceptionally fast, her best day's run was 358 miles reported on her maiden voyage and she proved very profitable for her owners. On 2^nd August 1861, she left Sunderland with a cargo of coal bound for San Francisco; on 12^th October, when off Pernambuco, a fire was discovered at 1 o'clock which, by 6 o'clock the same evening, had burned the ship to the waterline and she foundered.