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Description: | Part of the figurehead of mission vessel 'John Williams I' representing an arm with the hand holding part of an open bible. The text originally read: 'Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel.' The carving represented the missionary John Williams (1769-1839) after whom the ship was named. It has the remains of gold paint. Formerly in the collections of the London Missionary Society.
1990 Museum list: 92 arm from figurehead of JW 1,1975 list: The left arm from the wooden figure-head of JW1. The bible was open....Being hung on canvas bands only when the ship was in port, it did not go to the bottom when she was wrecked....R. Turpie in a letter to Mr Kybert (of the Mission House) in1899 implies that the latter had reported that the arm had been found in an 'old summer house at Trowbridge'. Turpie wondered how it had got there, It seems likely that an article was published in 'News from Afar' in 1900. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | John Williams 1844 (missionary ship) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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