Category Archives: Other interesting ships
Brig “Pilgrim” in a gale off Point Conception and standing off shore.
Hayscow “Dora” off Alcatraz, 1887, passing the quarantine anchorage and ship Balclutha.
Whaler Gay Head “blewing” for the draw bridge in the Alameda Estuary, 1913.
Bardi Wharf, Port Hueneme, Ventura County, California in the late 1890s.
Clipper race – New York to San Francisco, 1851
Alembic crossing the barrier
Vessle swept along the waterfront
A Tancook schooner
Portrait of a small Nova Scotia schooner plying Mahone Bay with a full load of passengers.
See more...The Pequod at Nantucket, a scene from Moby Dick
Pequod at Nantucket, aquarelle, 1984. Ahab, Ishmael, and Starbuck standing on their ship’s forepeak on the eve of the quest for Moby Dick. Litho image 12″x 16″ on 17 1/2″x21″ paper.
See more...Research Schooner R/V Westward
Printed from oil on canvas. Portrait of the S.E.A. training schooner with backed staysails, getting in an otter trawl off Newfoundland. Published by the Sea Education Association of Woods Hole.
See more...Scow Schooners on San Francisco Bay
Reproduced from oil on canvas. Portraying hay scows WITCH OF THE BAY and ALMA sailing in bay fog.
See more...Bluenose II
Aquarelle. The near-replica of the famous original BLUENOSE is portrayed as the artist viewed her over the afterdeck of his own gaff cutter ELLY with friends and family.
See more...Barque Picton Castle rounding the Lahave headland
Gilkerson was aboard for this particular passage out of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, to Bermuda. Ship under the command of Captain Daniel Moreland.
See more...River voyage aboard a dow on the Southern Continent
Print from aquarelle by WG – Illustration from William Gilkerson’s novel, Ultimate Voyage, Shambhala Publications, Chapter VIII. Steward’s river … See more…
