Lot 495: Woolston Barratt, 19th Century

The four-masted barque Lucipara under full sail signed and inscribed 'Woolston Barratt/Newcastle NSW (lower right) oil on canvas 24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm.) NOTES The iron four-masted barque Lucipara was built by Archibald Russell & Co. at Greenock in 1885. Owned by Peter Denniston's Island Line of Glasgow, she was registered at 1,943 tons gross (1,863 net) and measured 267 feet in length with a 40 foot beam. Fast although no record-breaker, she nevertheless turned in some good passages over the years, her best ever being 82 days from Drammen (Norway) to Melbourne in 1910, the fastest run in the Baltic timber trade that year. The best daily tally on this trip was 302 miles and she averaged 220 miles a day for 27 days between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Otway (Melbourne). After twenty-five years in the Australian trade she was sold to Russian owners but became a wartime casualty when she was sunk by a German submarine off Northern Ireland on 26 th May 1917 when outward bound from Ardrossan.