Tag: John Allcot
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01 Marine Painting – John Allcot’s S.S. Dorrigo, with Footnotes, #370
SS Dorrigo was a cargo and passenger steam ship. It was built under the name of Saint Francois by the Smiths Dock Company at the South Bank in Middlesbrough on the River Tees in Northeast England for the Compagnie Navale de l’Océanie for the Pacific Island postal and general trade service, for which it sailed the…
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John Allcot, Cutty Sark 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #285
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion.…