FLYING CLOUD, 256' aux. schooner yacht, 1927
black-and-white photograph
PHOTOGRAPHSunidentified phographer
1927
emulsion on photographic paper
9 x 11 1/2 x 0 in.
6 3/4 x 9 in. image printed on 9 x 11 1/2 in. paper by an unidentified photographer at the sea trials of the 256' 4-masted aux. schooner yacht, FLYING CLOUD in 1927. She was built by Canteri Navale Orlando at Livorno, Italy and designed by Captain E. L. Davies. View of FLYING CLOUD, underpower,sails furled, port beam view. Handwritten in black ink on surface of image upper right, "552E" and in lower right margin area, "Trials - 17 - 4 - 27". Handwritten in verso in pencil across upper part of print, "Flying Cloud". Handwritten in ink in center, "256 O. A. / 203 B. P." Stamped in lower left, "Please return to / Tams & King, Inc. / 250 Park Avenue / New York City" and written in pencil, "T.K." CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.
NN.1984.187.105
Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection