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Description: | Scale: 1:120. A modern model, built from contemporary plans, of the American sailing merchantman and extreme clipper ?Witch of the Waves? (1851). Designed by George Raynes and built at his yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the ?Witch? as she was colloquially known, was one of the several witches out of the port of Salem, near Boston on the east coast of the US.
Measuring 220 feet in length by 40 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 1498 gross, she was built for the owners Glidden & Williams and Hunt & Peabody, Boston. She carried both passengers as well as variety of cargo during her early years but was probably made famous by her record times from China to the East India Docks, London, with a valuable cargo of 19,000 chests of tea. She was of great interest to the English press as having ?bows and general appearance being similar to the America yacht, which carried off the plate at Cowes last year?. (?Illustrated London News?, 1 May, 1852) She was sold to Dutch owners in 1855 and renamed ?Electra?. After being reduced to a barque rig in 1876, she was sold again to Norwegian owners in 1882 and renamed ?Ruth?.
CA: ABB.
caption: Witch of the Waves (1851) - port broadside
caption: Witch of the Waves (1851) - port three quarter view
caption: Witch of the Waves (1851) - starboard quarter view
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum full hull ship models Witch of the Waves 1851 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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