Oil ship portrait of the cargo steamer SS 'Dinorwic' in starboard broadside view, with auxiliary sail hoisted, and approaching a headland bearing a lighthouse on the right. 'Dinorwic' was a small coaster of 276 gross registered tons, built at Ayr, Scotland, in 1892 for the Dinorwic Quarry Co. of Carnarvon, North Wales, whose funnel livery she is wearing including its partially overlapping initials; 'D' in red and 'Q' in black. Initially she was engaged in carrying the company's products - most notably Welsh slate - from its own diminutive Port Dinorwic (now called Y Felinheli) on the Menai Strait to markets on England's and Scotland's east coast. As demand for slate declined, however, she was employed in general trading. In this view, which looks broadly southward, 'Dinorwic' is running across Greyhope Bay into Aberdeen past the Girdleness Lighthouse. Its tower (1833) appears in other similar ship portraits by Bourne, a fairly prolific 'pierhead painter' about whom little else is known and by whom this is the only work in the NMM collection. The ship's name is inscribed at the bottom of the canvas and, to its right - possibly by another hand - 'Capt W. Evans', who was presumably the ship's master at the time the painting was done and may have commissioned it. 'Dinorwic' capsized in poor weather in the River Torridge, Devon, while unloading a cargo of coal from Goole in January 1934, and was scrapped after being refloated. The Museum has a photograph of her under way on the Thames sometime between 1919 and 1923 (N43023) and also crew lists for her. We are grateful to Michael Charles for identifying the artist and supplying information for this entry. [PvdM 1/19]