The Exhibits
MODELS I. Two-masted English schooner of the type that traded to Cork c. 1900. Schooners are fore and aft rigged sailing ships with two or more masts. In the days of sail, they were the small, go any-where cargo carriers. (D. Rankin) 2. Topsail Schooner 3. Three-masted Schooner (D. Roberts) Oack O'Driscoll) 4. William Ashburne. Three-masted schooner. One of the last to trade with Cork. Built 1875. (P.J. Walsh) 5. Two-masted Irish coastal schooner, c. 1910 (Don Cunis) 6. Thornhill. Three masted barque. Barques are three masted ships in which the fore and main masts carry square sails. Thornhill, 919 tons, was built in Quebec, 1855, and was a fast ship with clipper lines. Owned by Arthur Herbert of Passage West till c. 1885 (N. Roberts) 7. Barquencine, model made by Captain Dick Hoare, who was a captain with the Cork Steam Packet Company and had served as a cadet on the famous sailing clipper ship, Thermopolae. A barquenrine is square rigged only on her foremast, the main and mizen masts being rigged fore and aft. (N. Roberts) 8. Brigantine. A brigantine is a rwo-masted ship, with square sails on her foremast, fore and aft rig on the main mast. (Don Cunis) 9. Sailor's model ofa four masted sailing ship. (N. Robercs) 10. Kinsale hooker. Shipwright's half model of this Cork version of the hookers still sailing on the wesc coast of Ireland (Kinsale museum) 11. Hare Island (Roaring Water Bay, west Cork) fishing boar. Model by George Bushe whose father built this type of vessel and other small boats near Baltimore in the early years of che present century. Typical of the small vessels wich local characteristics once built and worked around our coasts. (G. Bushe) 12. Beacon cottage, Old Head of Kinsale. Before the days of lighthouses as we know them, beacons were lie on theroofs ofsmall, speciallybuiltbeaconcot tages. One such still survives on the Old Head of Kinsale. (Kinsale Museum) 13. East lndiaman. The East India Company owned and traded ics own big ships from Britain to India. They were large, armed and well appointed and for two centuries were thought of as the 'ne plus ultra' of vessels.
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