SS Thomas W Lawson (1902) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
SS Thomas W Lawson (1902) / hugh llewelyn
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | A contemporary model of the steel seven-masted gaff-schooner SS Thomas W Lawson at the Science Museum, South Kensington, 15 November 2008. This amazing ship was designed by Bowdain B Crowninshield and built by Four River Ship & Engine Building, Quincy, Massachusetts, being launched and completed in 1902, the only modern seven-masted sailing vessel built. She weighed 5,220 gross tons, 13,860 tons displacement and was designed to carry coal and oil, the world’s first pure sail oil tanker. The Thomas W Lawson was intended for the Pacific trade but in the event never sailed there. She proved very cumbersome and difficult to handle at sea. On a charter to the Anglo-American Oil Co., she was wrecked in 1907 on the Isles of Scilly in a severe storm during which she lost her sails and all bar one lifeboat. The captain refused help from a lifeboat. All the crew except perished (many bodies found were headless and/or limbless after having been dashed against the rocks) except, ironically, the captain and engineer who survived! |
| 撮影日 | 2008-11-15 17:08:19 |
| 撮影者 | hugh llewelyn , Keynsham, UK |
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| 撮影地 | Royal Kensington and Chelsea, England, UK 地図 |
| カメラ | DSLR-A350 , SONY |