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
Tempted as I was to make an animation of the jaywalkers dicing with death I resisted the urge.
On the other hand - four fingers and a thumb!
Meanwhile back at the Pavilion.
Paint and photographs
The Ramsgate Weatherpersons
and yes work? this is the the link to today's books
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