Where is this?

Discussion in 'All Things Boats & Boating' started by Wynand N, Apr 22, 2007.

  1. Angélique
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    Angélique aka Angel (only by name)

    Nantucket ?
     
  2. hoytedow
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    You are correct. It is in a museum, but where?


    A clue: This model is in the same museum.
     

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    Right coast, wrong flag.
     
  4. Angélique
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    Angélique aka Angel (only by name)

    Ah, a hydrofoil, now we will have Doug on the thread soon . . :D

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    OK, here goes . . :)

    It's a First Order Fresnel lens from Barbier, Bénard et Turenne (translation) in Paris and was operated on the Sambro Island Light from 1906 until 1968.

    The ship model is the HMCS Bras d'Or (FHE 400). - - - ( :eek: name was on the picture, NCSM is French for HMCS )

    Both are on display in the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    Here are the lens and the model on a Google Virtual Tour through the museum.

    P.S.

    I don't have ‘‘web fresh’’ digital pictures available, so someone else please take a turn.
     
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    Please take a well deserved bow, Angélique. Well done. As you can see from the virtual tour it is not one lens but 4.
    Hurricanes have no respect for federal buildings.
     
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    Bravo Angélique!
     
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    +1 :)
     
  8. Tiny Turnip
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    Ok, photos taken from two different locations on the same island. Which island? Bonus for the two locations.
     

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    Just guessing it is the island if Britain. The locations are on the coast. :D
     
  10. hoytedow
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    Sully Island might be a good guess.
     
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    Ha! - yes, Hoyt, Britain it is!

    but not Sully Island.

    There's a (difficult) clue in the background of one pic

    More pictures in a little bit...
     
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    a few more pictures... ...all taken from the island in question, same two locations as before, except the last, taken from a boat, looking towards the place where the two boats are pulled up in the seaweed in the first post.
     

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    well, Tiny, I think this is a firth.

    edit - didn't see the second bunch. Now I can go to work. I think I have a painting by a minor artist called Valentine that is of that island. My dad used to vacation there, And I have a couple watercolors my greatgrandad (b.1821) painted around 1860 showing clipper ships.
     
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    Well, strictly speaking, the island is in a loch, albeit a sea lock. I'm afraid I don't immediately recognise the postcard...

    Your paintings sound fascinating - would it be possible to post a photo of them? I'd love to see them.
     
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