This was an iron hulled barquentine rigged (three masts,
square sails at the front and triangular ones at the back) sailing ship built
in Sunderland in 1875.
She made at least two voyages to Auckland in the 1870s was dismasted
in a hurricane in the 1880s sailed to New Zealand in the 1890s.
Had some sort of life in Finland and Norway in the early
1900s
Converted into a floating restaurant which operated in
Ramsgate from 1946 to about 1951
She was broken up in 1952
Do feel free to add info in the comments as my info could
well be partially wrong. 196 feet long and weighing in 800 ton ball park
I've been doing more painting in the cathedral, a bit spot the difference, but here it is
The Bounty in Ramsgate harbour was a barque ie square rigged on the fore and main masts with fore and aft sails on the mizzen mast, a barquentine is square rigged only on the fore mast with fore and aft sails on the main and mizzen masts.
ReplyDeleteI’ve been asking around for years about the old sailing ship more in Ramsgate harbour. I remember as a very small child travelling and arriving by steam train, my face was blackened with soot and ash from the engine, it was cleaned by my mother in the usual 1948 manner, ‘spit on a handkerchief and vigorously rubbed’. It was I think my first holiday after the war, my widowed mother must have saved every penny to get us there !! Strange how images stay in your memory, I seem to recall there was some children’s entertainment onboard th Bounty, happy memories.
ReplyDeleteMy parents brought my brother and I to Ramsgate for a holiday as small children. That boat looked very grand with lights and fluttering flags. My parents would go on board and have a drink in the evenings. It was amazing and very impressive to a four year old!
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