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Description: | The Margaret and Winneford was the first ship to be built on Hillgate Quay in Gateshead. Named after his two daughters, it was launched by the Admiral of the Fleet, Sir John Forster on April 13th 1767. To commemorate the launching, William Beilby was commissioned to produce this bowl, to be presented to the admiral. In its first year the ship sailed to Denmark and Sweden carrying iron and returned to Newcastle with a cargo of timber. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | artists living in the North East transport events art designers glass men date period women shipbuilding | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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