Clipper ship 'Swiftsure' 1326 Tons V Stacpoole, Commander

Print entitled 'Clipper ship ''Swiftsure'' 1326 Tons V Stacpoole, Commander'. She is shown flying the Green Blackwall line house flag and the 'pilot jack' (signal for a pilot), inward bound off Dover, with Shakespeare Cliff under her stern. The ship was built in the United Sates, though Lloyd's Register does not say where, in 1854, and was operated by R. & H. Green on the London to Australia run. There is a bill of sale relating to the ship in NMM MS GRN 14.

Object Details

ID: PAH9326
Collection: Fine art; Special collections
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Foster, William; Dutton, Thomas Goldsworthy
Vessels: Swiftsure (1854)
Date made: circa 1854
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Green Blackwall Collection
Measurements: Print: 422 x 573 mm