MONTAGUE DAWSON | THE CLIPPER SHIP TAMAR

Frost & Reed, Bristol (acquired from the artist, September 12, 1961, no. 30187)

Daniel Rees Fine Art Dealer, Jackson, Michigan

Acquired from the above by the present owner, January 1962

The steel full-rigged ship Tamar was built by Napier Shanks & Bell of Glasgow for Devitt & Moore, London, and launched in June 1889 with the company’s lion figurehead. This sturdy and swift vessel, under the command of Captain Henry Norquay Forbes, sailed in 1897 from Sydney to London in 89 days with a cargo of 7,428 bales of wool and completed an 1898 voyage from Newcastle, New South Wales to San Francisco in 51 days with a cargo of coal.  Tamar continued to cross the oceans until it was sold to Dutch owners in 1922 and then broken up in Rotterdam in 1923.