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The Brig 'Isabella Leith' of Aberdeen

Image credit: Aberdeen Maritime Museum

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The signal pennants confirm that this ship is the ‘Isabella Leith’. There is a label on the back of the painting which states ‘Mr. George Bell 2 Anthony Street / Black East / London Brig Isabella Leith Captain Robertson in a gale of wind off the Cape of Good Hope on the 12th of February’. She was built in Sunderland in 1848, and foundered on the 18 November 1888, off Durham (60 miles ESE of the Farne Islands.) The Master of the ship Charles Barkaway and his crew were picked up by another ship.

Aberdeen Maritime Museum

Title

The Brig 'Isabella Leith' of Aberdeen

Date

1850

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 50 x W 75.5 cm

Accession number

ABDAG008039

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Mrs M. B. Robertson, 1991

Work type

Painting

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