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Title: The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Robinson, John, 1846-1925, comp Peabody Museum of Salem
Subjects: Naval art and science Ships
Publisher: Salem, Mass., Peabody Museum
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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copy of it in the collection. d. Also, a copy by M. Macpherson in watercolor of an oil painting by George Southward, after a drawing made on the Mexican by Benjamin Read, Sept. 20, 1832, probably the sketch referred to as not traced. The oil painting was destroyed in the Salem fire of June 1914. C. Also, watercolor sketch of the Mexican from an original in the log-book. f( Also, builders half-hull model. (For full account of this piracy, see E. I. Hist. Coll.,vol. XXXIV, p. 41.) Mindoro, ship, of Salem, built by John Taylor at Boston, 1864,1065 tons. It cost Pickman, Silsbee & Allen, of Salem,$123,607.34. Large oil painting by Charles Torrey of Brookline, 1920.<( Also, another, imperfect, by W. P. Stubbs of Boston, together with photographs, builders drawings of sail plan, etc.The Mindoro was the last square-rigged vessel owned in Salem;she had been laid up at Derby Wharf for some years and her departure from Salem, April, 1894, marked the end of the foreign commerce of the port. 40
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IMAGE: SHIP "MINDORO" OF SALEM, by Charles TORREY (1859-1921)
The last ship owned in Salem, 1897. Painting by Charles Torrey. Minnesota, bark, of New York, built at Philadelphia, 1849, 243 tons. Later a New Bedford whaler, recorded in Starbuck as a ship. Watercolor painting by Benjamin Russell of New Bedford inscribed, — Bark Minnesota making a passage. Milo, ship, of Boston, built by Thatcher Magoun at Medford, Mass.,1835. Copy in water-color of original in oil by a Chinese artist,with the ship Levant at Lintin, China, about 1840. (See Levant.) Monk, ship, of Salem, built at Nobleborough, Maine, 1805, 253 tons. Watercolor painting inscribed, — Ship Monk of Salem,Capt. John W. Allen and signed, — Nicolay Carmillieri 1806 (Marseilles). Montauk, ship, of New York, built by W. H. Webb for A. A. Low & Brother, 1844, 540 tons. Oil painting signed, — Sunqua, a Chinese artist at Whampoa. One of the earliest clipper ships built. (See Clark,Clipper Ship Era, p. 64.) Mount Vernon, ship, of Salem, built by Retire Becket at Sa

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