Tag: Ocean Telegraph

01 Marine Painting – Henry Scott’s The clipper ship Light Brigade, with Footnotes, #347

Jan 20, 2023

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Zaidan Art Blog

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Ocean Telegraph was an American clipper ship. Built in 1854 for the run between New York and San Francisco, she was later sold and renamed Light Brigade in 1863. For the next 12 years she was used predominantly to transport cargo and immigrants between London and Australia and New Zealand. She was described as “a very sharp clipper…