Lot 642: A. de Clerk (fl.1900)

The Danish topsail schooner Valborg of Viele off the Noord Hinder lightship, with the pilot cutter approaching inscribed 'Valborg af Veile' (lower left) oil on canvas 25 x 38 in. (63.5 x 96.5 cm.) NOTES The wooden topsail schooner Valborg was built by Gylding & Lindtner at Veile (Denmark) in 1877. First registered at 140 tons gross (133 net), she measured 901/2 feet in length with a 201/2 foot beam and spent most of her working life as a North Sea and Baltic trader. Still afloat in 1914, she became a casualty of war when she was sunk by a German submarine on 26 th October 1916 off Bougie (North Africa) whilst on passage from Chatham (New Brunswick, Canada) to Tunis carrying timber.