I wonder if this could be the schooner built by Captain Duncan Matheson of Omaha. Captain Matheson was accidentally killed aboard the schooner in 1882, just as he had finished building her. He was hit by a falling spar.
She won the the trading Vessels' Race at Auckland Anniversary Regatta in 1883 and was considered one of New Zealand's fastest vessels.
The hull of above ship does not look like that of a racer though, not here at least) My info is from P. A. Eaddy, who warns of mistaking this Three Cheers with a larger Australian "hold-scow." I would take a scow to be a flat bottomed vessel with hard chines that should show forward, but here's a picture of a former hold-scow that compares well with the picture above: http://ehive.com/account/3021/object/42312/Photograph_%5BScow_The_Portland%5D So maybe this is not the New Zealand flyer but something slow from Australia.
It's the L'Avenir on the right at least...
She won the the trading Vessels' Race at Auckland Anniversary Regatta in 1883 and was considered one of New Zealand's fastest vessels.
The hull of above ship does not look like that of a racer though, not here at least) My info is from P. A. Eaddy, who warns of mistaking this Three Cheers with a larger Australian "hold-scow." I would take a scow to be a flat bottomed vessel with hard chines that should show forward, but here's a picture of a former hold-scow that compares well with the picture above: http://ehive.com/account/3021/object/42312/Photograph_%5BScow_The_Portland%5D So maybe this is not the New Zealand flyer but something slow from Australia.
It's the L'Avenir on the right at least...
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