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Two-masted clipper bow paddle, Sir Charles Forbes?, Higo flag
Mounted in album with PAI0748-PAI0755, PAI0757-PAI0765.; Heightened with white.
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ID:
PAI0756
Type:
Drawing
Materials:
Watercolour
Display location:
Not on display
Places:
Higo Province
Vessels:
Sir Charles Forbes(fl.1864) ?
Credit:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:
Sheet: 151 x 212 mm
Parts:
Album of watercolours of English/Japanese merchant ship belonging to or managed by W J Alt agent in Japan (Album)
Promise screw steam vessel, Kokura flag (Drawing) (PAI0748)
Satsuma sailing vessel (Drawing) (PAI0749)
Screw steam ship flying Satsuma flag, probably Lotus (Drawing) (PAI0750)
City of Nantes, flag of Tatsuno, 1850 (Drawing) (PAI0751)
Vulcan?, Imperial flag, 1863 (Drawing) (PAI0752)
Sail assisted, screw steam vessel, Geishu flag (Drawing) (PAI0753)
Paddle steam vessel, Geishu flag (Drawing) (PAI0754)
Three-masted straight stem screw vessel, possibly Coila, Higo flag (Drawing) (PAI0755)
Two-masted clipper bow paddle, Sir Charles Forbes?, Higo flag (Drawing) (PAI0756)
Three-masted sail assisted screw steam vessel, possibly Yeddo, Hizen flag (Drawing) (PAI0757)
Two-masted clipper bow small steamer of a barge type, possibly Caledonia, Hizen flag (Drawing) (PAI0758)
Two-masted screw steamer, possibly Taku, Hizen flag (Drawing) (PAI0759)
Two-masted clipper bow screw steam vessel, possibly Columbine, plain flag (mark forgotten in the painting) (Drawing) (PAI0760)
Two-masted clipper bow screw steam vessel, possibly Sakana or Nymph, showing no flag on the main mast (Drawing) (PAI0761)
Two-masted straight stem steam vessel, possibly Varuna, showing no flag on main mast (Drawing) (PAI0762)
Straight stem steam paddle vessel, possibly Ta Yung?, showing no flag on main mast (Drawing) (PAI0763)
Straight stem screw steam vessel, Chichili, 1867, showing no flag on main mast (Drawing) (PAI0764)
Brig-rigged steamer with head decoration and a round stern, possibly Carthage, showing a Kishu flag thought to be wrong (Drawing) (PAI0765)
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