Polly Woodside
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xenithPolly Woodside aka Rona
Iron barque, built 1885 in Belfast.
647 tons, 192 feet long, max speed 14 knots.
A trading ship, coal mostly, from the end of the era of sail, although she remained in use to the 1920s, when she was converted to a coal hulk.
Original Photos
Under sail
Under sail, from a different angle
"Three masted barque about to be broken up on the rocks."
"On Her Way To The Seclusion Of Hulkland"
Before restoration
We're going to start at the bow, walk down the starboard side, then back along the port side. Then we'll go below, have a look at the hold and then the aft accommodation.
The white thing there is the deck cabin where the crew slept, and the galley is just behind it.
Inside the deck cabin.
Galley
Main mast
Companion
In the hold.
The deck bit here is a modern addition for the benefit of visitors, in use it would have been all hold, accessed by ladders.
Looking the other way.
This is the layout of the aft accommodation, recreated to reflect living conditions when the ship was in use.
The doors connecting the hold to cabins, and the door from the apprentices area (shown on the plans, not in the photos though) are for the benefit of visitors. Originally, these areas would also have been accessed directly from the upper deck.
Apprentices' area.
Ladder from apprentices area to deck
Entrance part of cook & steward's cabin
Master's cabin
Master's bath
Saloon
Pilot's cabin.
Companionway, connecting officer's cabins to quarterdeck.
Second mate's cabin (this one and next). Note the two bunks.
First mate's cabin (this one and next). Only one bunk in here.
Iron barque, built 1885 in Belfast.
647 tons, 192 feet long, max speed 14 knots.
A trading ship, coal mostly, from the end of the era of sail, although she remained in use to the 1920s, when she was converted to a coal hulk.
Original Photos
Under sail
Under sail, from a different angle
"Three masted barque about to be broken up on the rocks."
"On Her Way To The Seclusion Of Hulkland"
Before restoration
We're going to start at the bow, walk down the starboard side, then back along the port side. Then we'll go below, have a look at the hold and then the aft accommodation.
Inside the deck cabin.
Galley
Main mast
Companion
In the hold.
The deck bit here is a modern addition for the benefit of visitors, in use it would have been all hold, accessed by ladders.
Looking the other way.
This is the layout of the aft accommodation, recreated to reflect living conditions when the ship was in use.
The doors connecting the hold to cabins, and the door from the apprentices area (shown on the plans, not in the photos though) are for the benefit of visitors. Originally, these areas would also have been accessed directly from the upper deck.
Apprentices' area.
Ladder from apprentices area to deck
Entrance part of cook & steward's cabin
Master's cabin
Master's bath
Saloon
Pilot's cabin.
Companionway, connecting officer's cabins to quarterdeck.
Second mate's cabin (this one and next). Note the two bunks.
First mate's cabin (this one and next). Only one bunk in here.
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Date: 2007-12-20 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-20 02:43 am (UTC)Thanks :)
I like these as a "handy reference" set of photos. Being at a museum rather than an open ship, I had plenty of time to take the shots I wanted without other people getting in the way.
On the negative side, these are what I was taking when my camera broke (I'd turned around to take a photo of Melbourne). Cost to fix it was almost replacement cost so bye-bye camera. It was just 14 months old :( The image number had clicked over the day before too (9999 ---> 0000).