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John-Tansey — The Windjammer Garthpool
Published: 2010-12-15 20:15:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 2406; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 73
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A quick sketch of the windjammer Garthpool, a British bark approaching Queenstown, Ireland with a load of grain, from 1926Related content
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Dear John,
It is a lovely sketch; and you know what, I know the full story behind this ship. My great grandfather was a passenger on the last voyage of the Garthpool before she was wrecked off the Cape Verde Islands in November 1929; all the crew survived and had a bit of an adventure for several weeks on the islands.
I am currently working on a book, bringing all my research together and I set up a little website last year; it's a bit of a work in progress but I'll be adding to it and updating it bit by bit. Any feed back most appreciated;
www.thegarthpoolproject.webs.com
Well, all the best with your artwork,
Take care,
Bye for now,
Jessica S. Fox
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I am so pleased to meet you and quite honored you wrote to me. For sure and you probably know this anyway, "by 1923 Lioyd's Regester listed only 28 British-owned sailing vessals of 1,000tons or more. The last British Cape-Horn cargo carrier met her doom when the Garthpool,launched in 1882, was wrecked on the Cape Verde Islands in 1929"(The Windjammers,Time Life Books). I would be so happy to read what you write ,even works in progress
Feel free to Email me at seadog.john@hotmail.com (I willcheck out the website you posted) have a great weekend! John
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Hello John,
That is a lovely sketch; and you know what, I know the story behind that ship. My great grandfather was a passenger on the last voyage, before it was ship wrecked off the Cape Verde Islands in 1929!
I am currently working on a book about the full story of the adventure and the stories behind her crew; here's my website, a work in progress at the moment but I'm working on adding to it and updating it bit by bit; any feedback most appreciated.
www.thegarthpoolproject.webs.com
All the best with your art work,
Bye for now,
Jessica S. Fox
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The sounds of a Windjammer
Thu Oct 28, 2010, 8:15 AM
Listen closely to the wind... The taughtness and power of a steel and wire tophamper will combine, in bad weather, to produce a diapason such as can nowhere be heard execpt aboard a big, heavy-laden sailor. She becomes, as it were, a giant organ played by the heavy hands of wind and sea. Powerful gusts pluck at the tensed shrouds and straining backstays like fingers at harp-strings. Where some stays give forth a deep booming note, others hum wildly, like telegraph wires, under the stress. Halliards twang like banjo-gut and a continuous and plaintive moaning comes from the rigging-screws. The gale roars thruogh the slacker running-rigging, whose heavy blocks beat a mad tattoo against the steel spars. As she rolls, scuppers under,the steel wash-ports clang to and fro, and all the while the great seas break alongside or crash aboard to swirl from poop to fo'c'sle,battering at the deck-house doors and striving to wrench off the hatch tarpaulins. Every strake and frame of the labouring hull groans with her travail; while the thunder of wet storm canvas, and the staccato patter of squalls of driven hail add to that almost indescribable cacophony, the song of driven sail...
W.L.A. Derby 1870
Use this for whatever you thin is proper
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*whistles* .. so looking forward to see this painted!
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thank you, sometime in 2011 i will try to get it painted,thanx for everything...
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Yes later on, I am working much to hard right now,hehe...
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no prob. just guessing.^^
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