Collector's Journal — Maritime Rescue
The Newfoundland Rescue Dog: Legend, Sculpture and the Scottish Kennel Club
Animal Sculpture Animalier Sculpture Art Research British Sculpture Bronze Sculpture Canine Art Collectors Journal Dog History Dog Sculpture HELP Scottish KC Maritime History Maritime Rescue Newfoundland Bronze Newfoundland Dog Newfoundland History Provenance Research Reuben Decker S.S. Ethie Scottish Art Scottish KC Scottish Kennel Club SS Ethie Wisher Working Dogs
An intriguing early twentieth-century bronze Newfoundland bears the inscription “HELP Scottish K.C.”, opening a fascinating story of canine history, maritime rescue and the enduring legend surrounding the S.S. Ethie disaster of 1919.
Shipwreck and Rescue: A Victorian Marine Drama off the Scottish Coast
Art Research British Marine Painting Collectors Journal Dundee Dundee Maritime History Dundee Shipbuilding Fraser & Son Dundee Gourlay Brothers Lifeboat Lifeboat Rescue Marine Art Maritime History Maritime Rescue Provenance Research RNLI Sailing Ship Scottish Maritime Art Scottish Maritime History Sealing Shipwreck Painting Steamship Victorian Marine Art Victorian Shipwreck Whaling Whaling Ships William Broome
A dramatic late nineteenth-century marine oil captures a steam-assisted sailing vessel foundering in mountainous seas as a lifeboat battles towards the stranded crew, evoking Dundee’s maritime heritage and the courage of Victorian lifeboatmen.
Storm Over Bamburgh: Shipwreck, Rescue and the Victorian Northumberland Coast
Anderson & Garland Art Research Bamburgh Bamburgh Castle British Art British Marine Art Coastal Painting Collectors Journal Farne Islands Forfarshire Grace Darling John Wilson Carmichael Marine Painting Maritime History Maritime Rescue Newcastle Art Northumberland Northumberland Coast Provenance Research Shipwreck Shipwreck Painting Victorian Art Victorian Marine Painting
A dramatic Victorian marine painting places a wrecked sailing vessel beneath the ancient walls of Bamburgh Castle, revealing the dangers of the Northumberland coast and its remarkable history of shipwreck, rescue and maritime survival.
