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Description: | Etching: hand coloured vignette showing the port side of the 350 ft (93m) four-masted American clipper, Great Republic (1853). She is shown in this image on a starboard tack in a brisk wind sailing over a dark, racing sea. A jib and staysail are hoist at the bowsprit. Each of the first three masts (fore, main and mizzen) have four square sails set and a reefed topmost sail. A gaff-rigged spanker and spanker topsail is set on the fourth (jigger or spanker) mast. Two flags fly to aft from the rigging, the American flag (Stars and Stripes) at the stern and a house flag (blue with red stripe) from the top of the main mast. Seen under the Republic's bow sailing in the far distance is another square-rigged ship.
Box Title: Sailing ships 1853-1902. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Great Republic 1853 [American] prints | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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