ANTIQUE #SA1130977

victorian oil painting sealer steam ship of dundee sinking the rescue - CATEGORY: ANTIQUE ART - DATED VICTORIAN

Victorian Oil Painting Sealer Steam Ship Of Dundee Sinking The Rescue

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1 Large Dramatic Victorian Seascape Marine Art Oil Painting Sealer & Whaler Steam Ship Of Dundee Floundering Sinking Being Rescued By RLNI Lifeboat By William Broome.

Impress your clients & guests make an art statement with this nautical heroic rescue masterpiece to display on your office wall space or home interior.

Monogram signed WB at the bottom corner by the known listed marine British artist William Broome.

C1890 late 19th century.

Oil on canvas set in a fine later decorative gilt frame.

Large proportion sized frame being 99 cm wide and 68.5 cm tall.

Title “Sealer & Whaler Steam Sail Ship of Dundee Floundering RLNI Buckie Lifeboat Rescue James Sturm In Stormy Seas” C1890.

Your focus is first drawn to the centre where you can see the Dundee steamer ship in distress, sinking by the stern, its central mast has been broken off in the storm and is partialy submerged by the rear starboard side of the ship. Partial black smoke coming out of the single funnel as the... engines are failing due to the engine room taking on water below the waterline. The sails on the other 2 masts have been folded away. Rigging is blowing fiercly with the high winds, onboard are the distraught fisherman crew who are all on deck awaiting rescue, some of the crew are frantically throwing lines to to incoming RLNI rescue life boat James Sturm.

Onboard the rescue life boat one of the rescuers is stretching reaching out to try and catch one of the lines. On very rough tough swells high seas. To the lower left flank are 2 small flocks of seagulls flying low, below them is a wooden barrel floating on the choppy seas. Above mainly dark storm clouds with lighter clouds shining through toward the top right.

Sealer & Whaler 3 Masted Steel Hull Screw Sail Steamer of Dundee. Builder Messrs. Gourlay Bros. Built In Dundee, steamship built for Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Company. Gourlay Brothers was a marine engineering and shipbuilding company based in Dundee, Scotland. It existed between 1846 and 1908. The company had its origins in the Dundee Foundry, founded in 1791.

By 1820 the foundry was manufacturing steam engines, building engines and boilers for the steam tug William Wallace in 1829, and in the 1830s building locomotives for the Dundee and Newtyle and the Arbroath and Forfar Railways. James Stirling (1800–1876) was manager of the Dundee Foundry until 1846. In 1846 the Foundry was taken over and renamed Gourlay, Mudie & Co. This company was dissolved in 1853, and then operated as Gourlay Brothers & Co., with four brothers – Alexander, William, Gershom, and Henry Gourlay – as partners. In May 1854, Gourlay''s turned to shipbuilding, leasing land at the east end of Marine Parade to use as a slipway.

Their first vessels were built for the coastal trade, but they went on to build a number of cargo ships for the Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Company. The business prospered, largely due to the efforts of Henry Gourlay, a member of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland and of the Institution of Naval Architects. By 1866 Gourlay''s had become the largest of the five shipbuilding firms in Dundee, employing about 300 men, and building 14,000 tons of shipping between 1861 and 1867.

In 1867 they launched the Dundee of 1,295 tons, at that time the largest ship built on the Tay. In 1869 Gourlay''s leased more land downriver from their yard, which they named Camperdown Dock, enabling even larger ships to be built. In 1871 five vessels were launched, all of more than 1,000 tons. In 1876 seven of the twenty-three ships built in Dundee were launched from Gourlay''s yard. However, a serious slump in shipbuilding occurred in the mid-1880s, with Gourlay''s building only three ships totalling 4,000 tons in 1885 and 1886.

On 8 June 1908, the company was finally wound up. In May 1909 the equipment of the Yard and Foundry we

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Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA1130977

Dateline of this antique is Victorian

Height is 68.5cm (27.0inches)
Width is 99cm (39.0inches)
Depth is 3cm (1.2inches)

Antique ID: SA1130977
Item: Victorian Oil Painting Sealer Steam Ship Of Dundee Sinking The Rescue - - with a 5% "buy online" discount (reference SA1130977)
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