Deck view of bark ALICE at sea

gelatin print

Gelatin print in album 1996.113.1; taken aboard bark ALICE, probably on a passage between New York and New Zealand, circa 1900. See The Log of Mystic Seaport, Fall 1981, Vol 33, No 3, page 84: "Heavy weather. Decked out in oil skins, part of the watch gathers at the main topgallant halyard. The wet, heeling deck, low, cold sunlight, and white swash to leeward as the ALICE plows through rising seas all hint at the discomfort of a Cape Horn passage." Built as bark ALICE for George Ropes by N. P. Kean, Weymouth, MA, 1881; 1905 rerigged as 4-masted schooner and renamed WINIFRED A. FORAN. Carl C. Cutler, a founder of Mystic Seaport, sailed aboard 1898. Vessel abandoned in heavy seas off Cape Hatteras February 13, 1906. Ref: Andrew German.