It is not, of course,
the real Ocean that appears in the picture above – the Ocean
sailed quite some years before the invention of photography in 1849.
The Ocean was, however, a fully rigged, three-masted sailing
ship similar to the one shown here.
I am indebted to Ina Koys for her permission to use the
photograph. You can visit her sites at http://www.koys.de/
or http://www.iko-web.de/ and if
you’d like to see the original photograph I worked from, you can
find it here: http://www.koys.de/Cutty/3_15barque.php.
So what do we know
about the Ocean? Here’s what appears in the Lloyd’s
register of shipping for 1820:
OCEAN
(Green
Book: Underwriters)
Master:
Captain J. Davis
Rigging:
Ship; 2 decks; 3 masts; sheathed in copper in 1817
Tonnage:
435 tons
Construction:
in Whitby; vessel 12 years old; good repairs in 1815
Owners:
Attys
Draught
under load: 17 feet
Port
of survey: London
Voyage:
sailed on Transportation
(Red
Book: Shipowners)
Master:
Captain Davis
Rigging:
Ship; 2 decks; 3 masts; sheathed in copper in 1817
Tonnage:
437 tons
Construction:
1808 in Whitby
Owner:
J. Atty
Draught
under load: 18 feet
Port
of survey: Cowes
Voyage:
sailed on Transportation
You
can see what a "fully rigged ship" looks like at:
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/shipsrigging.htm
My thanks to Gilbert Provost for looking up this
information for me. If you ask nicely, he may do a Lloyd’s lookup
for you as well. You can reach him at gprovost@reach.net
John Fuller (J2964x17w@shaw.ca)
