Sunday, October 5, 2014

The steel barque Olivebank


Built in Clyde in 1892, she was sunk by a floating mine just off Jutland in 1939. Even into the 20th Century, she continues the old British tradition of painting false gunports along her hull.
I should have posted this picture under "Jobs you wouldn't want to do, rigging topsails on a 19th Century barque".
http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/8120520.Former_Falmouth_teacher_publishes_second_book_about_sailing_ships/

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