"Waterwitch" off Gribben Head, Cornwall

The history and long age of British merchant sail ended with Waterwitch.

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This "Waterwitch" was the last engineless British square rigger to carry commercial cargo. Completed in 1872 at Poole, Dorset and registered at Portsmouth she had a long career trading to most parts of the British Isles, northern Europe, the Azores and across the Atlantic. Her story, "Life at sea was easier than farming" much of it here, reads like the background to a good sea novel. Waterwitch finished her last voyage under the "Red Duster", at Par on the 17th of May, 1936.

This gem of a painting shows "Waterwitch" bearing away to the West and making more sail, outward bound from the Port of Par, off the Gribben Head in Saint Austell Bay early one spring morning in a freshening South Easterly breeze. She is shown in her old age when owned by Stephens of Fowey, Cornwall.

As a result of interest shown and encouraged by a Meadus, a descendant of the original owners, who lives in Canada, and has ordered the first copy, we have decided to print this painting as an exclusive limited edition of only 100.

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By Gordon Frickers 16"x20" (406x508mm), Oils, Original Sold to a private collector.

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