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molasses
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Is it the Berkeley?
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While looking for the ship above I came across this and am posting it just for laughs.
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In the photo of the model, those are hammocks hung out to dry. I also corrected my "1888" typo.
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WINNER! It is the Commerce de Marseilles, French 118-gun first rate, built in 1788 she was the first of 15 ships from the same design. Captured by the British during the Siege of Toulon. Although superior to the British first rates of the time, she was only used as a store ship in the Royal Navy then left to rot. You turn St. George.
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Yes, it's a first rate but not Boyne.
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Let's try a ship that's a bit older than we've been looking at: I retouched the image to remove the flags. Have fun!
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It's the S.S. La Bourgogne 1885-1898
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Found your bottled ships today. Nicely done! I look forward to more of your builds. I know what you mean about getting hooked on the unique challenges presented by bottling a ship model and the sense of accomplishment when those challenges are overcome. What I like best is the inevitable question, "How did you get it in there?" -
Delighted to see another ship bottler on MSW! Nice work. I'll be following this and your other SIB builds. Thanks for posting your build log. I've always found the Baltimore clippers to be very pleasing to my eye and never get bored looking at them.
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You're correct, David. Have you ever noticed that the coolest guys are named Dave? Dave
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Try this one on for size:
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It's the Quiloa.
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We have a winner!! It is the Syria. Here's the lithograph. Your turn St. George.
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All good guesses, but no winner. I'm very much a sail guy so I never paid much attention to the ships that operated with both sail and steam. I didn't realize how common this configuration was. I googled every one of your guesses and learned a lot about these vessels. Last hint for the day: She carried the Royal Mail in the latter part of her career.
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Keep looking, folks. Time for another hint: The lithograph is dated 1863 There's also an artist's pencil sketch of her dated 1871. I suppose that actually makes two.
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Not the Rhone.
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St. George: The photo in your link shows three, possibly four, yards on each mast - kind of hard to tell when the point of view is close to directly abeam. The Wikipedia article for RMS Rhone has an image as I described above that appears to be authentic since the company and ship's names, ship dimensions and capacities are a part of the image. If I was building a model of RMS Rhone I would have to choose the Wiki image over the one in the St. Thomas Historical Society web article. I've seen plenty of photos on similar websites that (just as an example) identified an image of a three masted ship as being of a specific four masted barque. The image that I posted - and you are attempting to identify - is of similar provenance. It's from a contemporary lithograph by a well known lithographer in the collection of a prestigious museum with the company name, ship name, captain's name, and cargo and passenger capacities as a part of the lithograph. Of course I cropped that info when I cropped the registry flag. I'll re-cap the hints I've given: It's S.S. [something], it's not named after a person and it's not of US registry, plus those I gave above. I hope you're all having "fun" with this one.
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RMS Rhone had three yards on the foremast, none on the main.
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She was not of US registry. I deliberately cropped the flag to obscure her registry.
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She isn't named for a person.
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Keep looking.
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S.S. is correct, Hiberman isn't.
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Russian nuclear powered icebreaker Yamal.
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Has any one here Built theThomas W Lawson?
molasses replied to J Haines's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Sorry, no. No digital cameras at the time and I couldn't afford a good SLR camera. I also didn't care for the expense of film and developing. Learning photography at the time burned up a lot of film (and money) and I had little ones at the time. I also lost interest in finished SIBs at that time and gave most of them away.
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