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