Clipper Ship "Great Republic"

The following text is taken from the folder with a ship portrait, see above: The bitter end! The steam cone “Annona” was built in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1884 and was 165 1/10 feet l...

In December 1890Winslow Homer wrote to his brother Charles, “I have got a fine picture called The Distress Signal a scene in mid ocean.” The painter was referring to the work in th...

“The Core,” Captain P. Nordfeldt The ship was about approx. 300 tonnes and built in 1879 on the Swedish Royal Bank Steamship commander C. Sylván was a disponent at the Helsborg shi...

The ship of the dead called wuramon was used at the end of the initiation ritual, when the initiates crossed it. The crew of the ship is the spirits of the ancestors. At the end of...