Sailing Vessel PILGRIM
by James Williamson
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$2,400
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22.000 x 15.000 inches
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Title
Sailing Vessel PILGRIM
Artist
James Williamson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor And Gouache
Description
Sailing brig PILGRIM at sea. Sail on, sail on, thou fearless vessel, where'er blows the welcome winds.
Artist James Williamson ASMA,
Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists
Pilgrim (brig)
The Pilgrim was a sailing brig (180 tons, 86.5 feet (26.4 m) long) engaged in the California hide trade of the early 19th century. Although just one among many other ships engaged in the business, the Pilgrim was immortalized by one of her sailors, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., who wrote the classic account Two Years Before the Mast about its 1834 voyage between Boston and California.
The Pilgrim was built in 1825 for Boston owners Bryant, Sturgis & Co., and went down in a fire at sea in 1856.
A replica of the vessel is currently based in Dana Point, California, the site of some of Dana's adventures. This replica began as a 3-masted schooner (also called a "tern" schooner in North America) built in 1945 for the Baltic trade in Denmark. In 1975, Pilgrim was converted to her present rig, a brig, in Lisbon, Portugal. She is currently used as a floating classroom with the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, California, and she sets sail every summer on a tour of Southern California with a volunteer crew. The ship was used in Amistad, a film directed by Steven Spielberg.
A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and maneuverable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Brigs fell out of use with the arrival of the steam ship because they required a relatively large crew for their small size and were difficult to sail into the wind. They are not to be confused with a brigantine, which has different rigging. In the narrow technical field of sailing rigs, a brig is distinct from a three-masted ship by virtue of only having two masts.
Sailing in the distance: Barquentine
A barquentine or schooner barque (alternatively "barkentine" or "schooner bark") is a sailing vessel with three or more masts, with a square-rigged foremast and fore-and-aft rigged main, mizzen and any other masts.
Brig Pilgrim Original
Career: United States; Owner: Bryant, Sturgis & Co., Boston; Launched: 1825; Fate: Sunk in a fire at sea, 1856
General Characteristics: Class & Type: Brig; Tons burthen: 180 tons; Length: 85 feet
Notes: 1834 voyage described in Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Brig Pilgrim Replica
Career: Denmark; Launched: 1945; Name: Brig Pilgrim; Owner: Ocean Institute; Port of Registry: Dana Point, California
General Characteristics: Class & Type: 3-masted schooner, converted to Brig in 1975.
Notes: Element in the 1997 film Amistad
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September 1st, 2014
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