H.M.S. ROSE, center position behind dock, Newport, Rhode Island, undated negative

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
USA, RI, Newport
after 1970
safety film
overall: 2 3/4 x 4 3/8 in.

2 3/4 x 4 3/8 in. soft negative photograhed at Newport, Rhode Island sometime after 1970. Image of the frigate ROSE, at center, behind the dock. ROSE was an American made replica of the British ca. 1775 HMS ROSE. She was built 1969-1970 as a full-sized reproduction by the owner John Fitzhugh Millar of Williamsburg, Virginia for the U.S. bicentennial. She was used as a museum in Newport, Rhode Island for many years and sold in 1984 to a group in Bridgeport, Connecticut and became certified as a sail training vessel. In 2000 ROSE was sole to a movie production company for use in the movie, MASTER AND COMMANDER and later transferred to the Maritime Museum of San Diego with the stage name of HMS SURPRISE and still is there as of 2013. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, General Collection.

1982.84.63

Mystic Seaport, General Collection