It looks as if there was at least one painting of her which sold at auction in 1999 - but unfortunately there isn't an image on the web. You could try the auctioneers but you might have to buy some credits to find who they were. *http://tinyurl.com/qdkkctg* ** Cheers Piers On 5 August 2013 10:04, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Peter, > > Thank you for the information. I also think that it was early days for > photography and maybe no photographs were taken when she was first built. > I have tried the Rhiw site without success. > > Thank you for trying. I even tried under the new name of Oceanie, but did > not succeed there either. Maybe one day somebody will come up with > something. > > Regards > > Eunice > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Klein > Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 8:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MAR] The "Margaret Pugh" > > Hello again Eunice, > > Contemporary pictures of the Margaret Pugh are likely to be difficult to > find. I have tried various websites, such as > http://www.photoship.co.uk/Browse%20Ship%20Galleries/, which is always > worth > trying, but with no result. Dr. A.S.Davidson's book "Marine Art & > Liverpool" (Waine, 1986) has nothing, nor Roger Finch's "The Pierhead > Painters" (Hutchinson, 1983), nor Art and the Seafarer (Faber, 1968). > > You could try a direct enquiry to the National Waterfront Museum at > Swansea: > http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/swansea/, and they might have something in > their collection of photographs or paintings. A better chance might have > been to find a picture locally to Pwllheli, although had there been > something it's almost certain that the Pwllheli Shipbuilding website at > > http://www.rhiw.com/y_mor/hanes_llongau_llyn/pwllheli/pwllheli_shipbuilding..htm > would have illustrated it. Have you tried contacting them > ([email protected])? > > Someone out there may have something, either a photograph or pierhead > painting, but establishing contact will be difficult and you may have to be > very patient. Sadly this applies to all early shipping images, and the > widely scattered owners/collectors jealously guard copyright, but it would > be wonderful if there was some central registry of shipping pictures. But > that's a pipe dream! > > Best regards, > > PK > > > > > ________________________________ > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2013, 2:29 > Subject: Re: [MAR] The "Margaret Pugh" > > > Hello everyone, > > Can anybody advise me where I could find a picture of the three masted > barque "Margaret Pugh" (692 tons register) which was the largest vessel > ever > built at Pwllheli, in 1862. > > The ‘Margaret Pugh’ was registered at Caernarfon (No. 36 November 17, > 1862). > Her maiden voyage from Liverpool to San Francisco and back to Liverpool, > began on January 23, 1863 and ended on April 18, 1864. > > The engagement was from Liverpool to San Francisco, thence (if required) to > any ports and places in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans and China > and Eastern Seas, thence to a port for Orders and to the Continent of > Europe > if required, and back to a port of final discharge in the United Kingdom, > the term not to exceed three years'. > > The “Margaret Pugh” was one of the first Liverpool vessels to resume trade > with southern US ports after the ending of the Civil War, sailing to Mobile > in September 1865. > > She was sold to French owners (Bourdeaux) in June 1878, and renamed > Oceanie, > she was destroyed by fire in 1892. > > With many thanks for any assistance that may be forthcoming. > > Eunice Bold-Edwards > South Australia > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message