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HENRY SCOTT

United Kingdom, 1911-2005

The three-masted bark Annie Johnson outward bound off the Golden Gate Bridge.

Signed lower right 'Henry Scott'.
Provenance:
Sotheby's, London, January 2000.
Acquired from the above at that sale by the Kelton Foundation.

Annie Johnson was launched in England as the iron bark Ada Iredale. On a voyage from Scotland to San Francisco in October 1876, the ship's cargo of coal caught fire and the vessel was abandoned 1,900 miles east of the Marquesas. After drifting for eight months, she was sighted by the French gunboat Seignelay, and with her cargo still burning, was towed to Papeete, Tahiti. It was not until May 1878 that the fire was finally extinguished after burning for an amazing 19 months.
The
Ada Iredale was then purchased by Andrew Crawford of San Francisco, who overhauled and repaired the vessel, and in June 9, 1880, she was placed under U.S. registry and renamed Annie Johnson. In 1913 Matson re-rigged the ship as a four-masted schooner and in 1916 installed twin auxiliary diesels. In 1926, after logging more than 125 island voyages for Matson, she was sold to Captain Leo Ozanne of Papeete and renamed Bretagne. In October 1929, after departing Vancouver, Canada for Suva in the Fiji Islands, the 57-year old vessel rammed a floating log that holed her badly below the waterline. She sank just southwest of Cape Flattery.

From the Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts.
Oil on canvas, 28" x 42". Framed 33" x 47".
Condition: Overall excellent condition. The canvas is unlined. Under UV examination there is no sign of restoration or repair. The painting is ready to hang.

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