拍品 386
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Frank Joseph Henry Gardiner (b.1942)
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Frank Joseph Henry Gardiner (b.1942)

The Wild Pidgeon catting the anchor after dropping her pilot (illustrated); and The St. Paul cracking along under full canvas

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Frank Joseph Henry Gardiner (b.1942)
The Wild Pidgeon catting the anchor after dropping her pilot (illustrated); and The St. Paul cracking along under full canvas
the first signed 'F.J.H. Gardiner' (lower left); the second signed and dated 'F.J.H. Gardiner/85' (lower left)
brown ink and watercolour heightened with white
14½ x 21¼ in. (36.8 x 54 cm.)
a pair (2)
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拍品專文

The Wild Pidgeon was built for Olyphant & Co. of New York by George Raynes at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and launched on 31st July 1851. Registered at 991 tons (American), she measured 189 feet in length with a 40 foot beam and was intended for the China trade. Described by an observer as "one of the most beautiful and jaunty ships afloat", she had long sharp lines and was well sparred, with a large sail plan. A popular ship both for cargo and passengers, she proved fast although no record breaker, and turned in consistently good passages, especially under Captain Mayhew. Sold in 1865 for $35,000, by 1868 she was Spanish-owned and named Bella Juana; later renamed Voladora and rigged as a barque, she was abandoned at sea in a sinking condition on 17th February 1892.

The St. Paul was one of a series of vessels named for saints which emanated from the yards of Chapman & Flint at Bath, Maine, during the 1870s. Built to Chapman & Flint's own account, St. Paul was launched in September 1874, registered at 1,894 tons gross (1,824 net) and measured 228 feet in length with a 42 foot beam. After making 14 westward passages to California, the fastest in a very creditable 115 days, she found herself in Seattle in 1901 without a cargo and was promptly sold to fish packers who employed her thus for the next twenty-three years. Considered one of the finest 'Down Easters' ever built, it was little wonder that she was eventually recognised as worthy of preservation as "a specimen of the once famous American wooden sailing ship" in 1930 and thereafter berthed in Puget Sound as a museum ship.