.
From Lubbock's "Colonial Clippers"
(WT) WATSON BROTHERS
Ben Nevis
(renamed Astoria) - i3s
1,061t
nmm photo ut No.
P.1630
1868 Glasgow (re-rigged
as bk)
Ben Venue - i3s 999t 1867
Glasgow
slv photo am
(Ben Venue built 1867
not 1884)
Image No.
bs002811
slq same
photo am
Image No. 128672
nmm photo
am No. G.2249
slv photo
of Ben Venue and
City of Perth both driven
ashore in Caroline Bay,
Timaru, May 1882
Image No. bs000212
nmm photo
(wrecked at
Timaru 1882, City of
Perth
also in picture) -
No. P.2181
Colour plate us, oppos. P.36,
in “Sail, The Romance of the
Clipper Ships”, Vol. II, from
watercolour by Jack Spurling
(Blue Peter Publications,
London 1929, and Grossett
& Dunlap, New York
facsimile reprint 1972).
Ben Voirlich - i3s 1,540gt
1873 Glasgow
slv photo of painting
(b&w) us
Image No. bs002484
slv photo
aq
Image No. b40152
slv photo
am (after sale to new
owners) - Image No. bs002668
slv photo
aq ( after sale)
Image No. bs000847
nmm photo
aq No. P.1800
Colour
plate us, oppos. P.56,
in “Sail, The Romance of the
Clipper Ships”, Vol. II, from
watercolour by Jack Spurling,
publication details as above.
Ben Cruachan - i3s 1,540gt
1873 Glasgow
slv photo
of painting (b&w) us
Image No. bs001658
slv photo
am
Image No. bs003199
slq same photo am
Image No. 128666
Ben Avon - 3bk 684t nm 1885
Aberdeen
slv photo of painting
(b&w) us
Image No. bs002608
nmm photo us (very distant)
No. P.1772
nmm
photo (in port tug alongside)
No. P.1773
Ship
details ftom Basil Lubbock's "The Colonial Clippers" (Brown, Son
&
Ferguson, Ltd., Glasgow, New Edition
1948) and
Lloyd's Register
(RETURN)